COURT OF PECULIARS

court of peculiars

Court of Peculiars. Hist. Eccles. law. A branch of the Court of Arches that had jurisdiction over the provincial parishes of Canterbury that were exempt from the jurisdiction of the diocesan bishop and responsible to the metropolitan only. • The Court of Peculiars was abolished in the 19th century. See COURT OF ARCHES ; PECULIAR.

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