An Account of the Present Deplorable State of the Ecclesiastical Courts of

William Downing Bruce

ISBN 10: 1332095984 / ISBN 13: 9781332095988

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2024

Beschreibung

Print on Demand. This book reveals a trove of information dating back centuries, held within Ecclesiastical Courts. The author provides an astonishing and detailed look at their history and the problems that have plagued these courts for decades, shedding light on the faulty administration of trusts. Despite reforms, the author argues that these courts are in desperate need of modernizing - particularly since the property they oversee constitutes so much of the de facto property deeds of the nation. The author calls for the government to ensure the safety of this wealth of information and explores the recurring inadequacies of the system, which has failed to protect and maintain the security of family property. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: An Account of the Present Deplorable State of the Ecclesiastical Courts of
• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1332095984
• ISBN-13: 9781332095988
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: New
• Buchtyp: print-on-demand item
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Excerpt from An Account of the Present Deplorable State of the Ecclesiastical Courts of Record: With Proposals for Their Complete Reformation

It is a national characteristic of the English people to love what is old. Prescription is entrenched in our common law; but finds a stronger hold in the natural disposition of society. The word "venerable" is one of the most effective adjectives in a speech spoken to an English audience; and when anything really respectable is linked, however artificially, with an ancient institution, its chances of popularity and permanence stand very high. It is much to be regretted that this disposition of the people has been largely abused, and that inveterate abuses have grown up into enormous wrongs, altogether intolerable.

There is one class of these standing in the midst of our institutions, like an old ruin in a country place, and owing immunity from interference to superstitious awe. None but the most hardy venture to approach lest the mass should fall upon the rash intruder. After this, need we name the Ecclesiastical Courts; having a jurisdiction "extending to all persons and things belonging to the Roman Church, to the guardianship of orphans, the wills of defuncts, and matters of marriage and divorce."

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.