Praemunire

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The offense under English law of appealing to or obeying a foreign court or authority, thus challenging the supremacy of the Crown.
  • n. The writ charging this offense.
  • n. The penalty for this offense.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The offence, in English law, of appealing to or obeying a foreign court or authority, especially a papal court or authority.
  • v. To subject to the penalties of praemunire.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The offense of introducing foreign authority into England, the penalties for which were originally intended to depress the civil power of the pope in the kingdom.
  • n. The writ grounded on that offense.
  • n. The penalty ascribed for the offense of præmunire.
  • v. To subject to the penalties of præmunire.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In English law, a species of writ, or the offense for which it is granted, or the penalty incurred.
  • n. A serious or awkward position; a predicament.
  • n. Another English statute, of 1392, designed to check the power of the Pope in England, by punishing those who procured from the papal authority any process against the king, or his crown or realm.
  • To bring within the penalties of a præmunire.
    • Word Usage
    "As it had availed Wolsey nothing that his breach of praemunire had been countenanced by the King, so it availed Cromwell nothing that the King had seemed to support him."
     
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