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Let them avoid having recourse to civil tribunals when possible.

They are not to bring an action against another cleric before a civil tribunal about temporal matters without written permission of the bishop.

(No. 6) Ecclesiastics should not bring ecclesiastical cases before the civil tribunals.

LFC do not seem to have understood how civil tribunal hearings operate.

Furthermore, all political prisoners will have their cases reviewed by civil tribunals, these matters to be concluded, at the latest, six months from now."

He is not opposed to penalties against heretics, but he would have them pronounced only by civil tribunals.

The Inquisition also pursued offences against morals, at times in open conflict with the jurisdictions of civil tribunals.

The affair came to light in May 1847 during the trial of the associates of the mining company before the Seine civil tribunal.

He studied law and became vice-president of the civil tribunal of Rouen in 1878, and a member of the appeals court three years later.

In the entire legal history of the United States no man has ever suffered capital punishment for even high treason at the bar of a civil tribunal."

The English monarchs, above all Elizabeth I, preferred to create civil tribunals to repress religious dissidents, above all Catholics, distancing themselves from the previous practices.

The recently reorganized Board of Grievances, a civil tribunal with wide jurisdiction outside the religious court system, has competence to review ministerial orders and governmental decrees for various causes.

Whoever tells a lie, however well intentioned he might be, must answer for the consequences, however unforeseeable they were, and pay the penalty for them even in a civil tribunal.

He separated the ecclesiastical administration and that of the civil tribunals, and obtained the definition, in the Pragmatic Sanction of 1699, of the extent of the jurisdiction of the vicariate-general and the consistory.

It bound its members to refute calumnies of enemies of the Church, whether derived from distortions of history, jurisprudence, or dogma, but above all are they to devote their legal knowledge to a defense of the Church's rights before civil tribunals.

In 385, this new legal situation resulted, in the first case of many to come, in the capital punishment of a heretic, namely Priscillian, condemned to death, with several of his followers, by a civil tribunal for the crime of magic.

This idea came from common law, and the earliest conception of a criminal act involved events of such major significance that the "State" had to usurp the usual functions of the civil tribunals, and direct a special law or 'privilegium' against the perpetrator.

In September 2011 the Palermo civil tribunal ordered the Italian government to pay 100 million euros ($137 million) in civil damages to the relatives of the victims for failure to protect the flight and for concealing the truth and destroying evidence.

During the seventeenth century the French clergy presented frequent memorials against the encroachments made by their kings and parliaments through constant recourse to these "appeals as from an abuse", which resulted in submitting to civil tribunals questions of definitions of faith, the proper administration of the sacraments, and the like.

A few lesser officers and functionaries, such as Fletta, the interrogator and executioner, had been dragged before civil tribunals, condemned, and broken on the wheel to appease the vengeful townsfolk; and a few unpopular nobles quit their homes and vanished, either sent into hiding by their fellows at court, or murdered by them.

This act had the approval of the synod which met at Trier in the same year, but Ambrose of Milan, Pope Siricius and Martin of Tours protested against Priscillian's execution, largely on the jurisdictional grounds that an ecclesiastical case should not be decided by a civil tribunal, and worked to reduce the persecution.