secular clergy. 1. Clergy who have no particular religious affiliation or do not belong to a particular religious denomination. 2. Clergy who live in their parishes and minister there, as contrasted with regular clergy who live in monasteries.
clergy n. (1)(古)受教育者；识字者；学者 (2)神职人员 基督教神职和教会人员的总称，区别于其他监督公众上帝信仰、宗教仪式和宗教团体的俗人。宗教改革之前，神职人员分为修道士〔regular clergy〕，如修道院院长，小隐修院院长〔priors〕等，和不受修道院誓约束缚的非修道院神职人员〔secular clergy〕，如主教、教长和堂区牧师。该词现指基督教会各教派中所有级别的神职人员。大量的制定法赋予神职人员特权，或对其强加义务和剥夺资格。英格兰的修道士可免于担任陪审员的义务，但一般的神职人员可任地方行政官员，并且普通法规定神职人员从事贸易为非法。美国法律不承认神职人员特权。 (3)神职人员特权(→benefit of clergy)
regular clergy 修道士 指受所属修道院或宗教团体的教规约束的神职人员，以区别于不受教规约束的非修道院神职人员〔secular clergy〕。(→clergy)
Constitutions of Clarendon. Hist. A 12th-century statement of customary law, produced during the reign of Henry II, intended to limit the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts and narrow the clergy’s exemption from secular justice. “During the first half of the twelfth century the claims of the church were growing, and the duty of asserting them
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Hist. A 12th-century statement of customary law, produced during the reign of Henry II, intended to limit the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts and narrow the clergy’s exemption from secular justice.
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legit vel non?(lee-jit vel non). [Latin] Eccles. law. Does he read or not? • This was the formal question propounded by a secular court to an ordinary (an ecclesiastical official) when an accused person claimed exemption from the court’s jurisdiction by benefit of clergy. If the ordinary found that the accused was entitled to exemption,
libertas ecclesiastica (li-b[schwa]r-tas e-klee-z[h]ee-as-ti-k[schwa]), n. [Law Latin “church liberty”] Hist. Immunity from secular law, enjoyed by the church and the clergy, who are subject to ecclesiastical law. • This immunity was created in Magna Carta (1215).
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