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In English law, the benefit of clergy (Law Latin: privilegium clericale) was originally a provision by which clergymen accused of a crime could claim that they were outside the jurisdiction of the secular courts and be tried instead in an ecclesiastical court under canon law. The ecclesiastical courts were generally seen as being more lenient in their prosecutions and punishments, and many efforts were made by defendants to claim clergy status; some were baldly fraudulent.

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  • Benefit of clergy
  • Privilegia clericorum
  • Privilège du clergé
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  • En droit anglais, le privilège du clergé (Droit Latin: privilegium clericale) était une disposition en vertu de laquelle les ecclésiastiques pouvaient prétendre qu'ils étaient hors de la juridiction des tribunaux laïcs et, en vertu de la loi canonique, devaient être jugés devant un tribunal ecclésiastique. Diverses réformes ont limité la portée de ce dispositif juridique pour prévenir les abus. Le privilège du clergé avait évolué vers une fiction juridique dans laquelle les primo-délinquants pouvaient recevoir une moindre peine pour certains crimes appelés crimes "clergyable" ("cléricable"). Ce mécanisme juridique a été aboli en 1827, avec une loi sur la peine de mort, le Judgement of Death Act, qui permet aux juges de condamner les primo-délinquants à des peines inférieures.
  • In English law, the benefit of clergy (Law Latin: privilegium clericale) was originally a provision by which clergymen accused of a crime could claim that they were outside the jurisdiction of the secular courts and be tried instead in an ecclesiastical court under canon law. The ecclesiastical courts were generally seen as being more lenient in their prosecutions and punishments, and many efforts were made by defendants to claim clergy status; some were baldly fraudulent.
  • I privilegia clericorum sono le particolari prerogative che secondo il diritto canonico spettavano a coloro che avevano ricevuto gli ordini sacri, cioè i chierici, e che sono stati ribaditi nel Codice di diritto canonico del 1917.
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