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Benefit of clergy   /bˈɛnəfɪt əv klˈərdʒi/   Listen
noun
Benefit  n.  
1.
An act of kindness; a favor conferred. "Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits."
2.
Whatever promotes prosperity and personal happiness, or adds value to property; advantage; profit. "Men have no right to what is not for their benefit."
3.
A theatrical performance, a concert, or the like, the proceeds of which do not go to the lessee of the theater or to the company, but to some individual actor, or to some charitable use.
4.
Beneficence; liberality. (Obs.)
5.
pl. Natural advantages; endowments; accomplishments. (R.) "The benefits of your own country."
Benefit of clergy. (Law) See under Clergy.
Synonyms: Profit; service; use; avail. See Advantage.


Clergy  n.  
1.
The body of men set apart, by due ordination, to the service of God, in the Christian church, in distinction from the laity; in England, usually restricted to the ministers of the Established Church.
2.
Learning; also, a learned profession. (Obs.) "Sophictry... rhetoric, and other cleargy." "Put their second sons to learn some clergy."
3.
The privilege or benefit of clergy. "If convicted of a clergyable felony, he is entitled equally to his clergy after as before conviction."
Benefit of clergy (Eng., Law), the exemption of the persons of clergymen from criminal process before a secular judge a privilege which was extended to all who could read, such persons being, in the eye of the law, clerici, or clerks. This privilege was abridged and modified by various statutes, and finally abolished in the reign of George IV. (1827).
Regular clergy, Secular clergy See Regular, n., and Secular, a.





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"Benefit of clergy" Quotes from Famous Books



... increase of the Yanokie or Yankee tribe; for it is a certain fact, well authenticated by court records and parish registers, that wherever the practice of bundling prevailed, there was an amazing number of sturdy brats annually born unto the state, without the license of the law, or the benefit of clergy. Neither did the irregularity of their birth operate in the least to their disparagement. On the contrary, they grew up a long-sided, raw-boned, hardy race of whoreson whalers, wood cutters, fishermen, and peddlers; and strapping corn-fed wenches, who by their united efforts tended marvellously ...
— Bundling; Its Origin, Progress and Decline in America • Henry Reed Stiles
... sixteen were rebel leaders who had fled from the country. Durham gave orders that the eight prisoners should be transported to the Bermudas during the queen's pleasure. The sixteen refugees were forbidden to return to Canada under penalty of death without benefit of clergy. ...
— The 'Patriotes' of '37 - A Chronicle of the Lower Canada Rebellion • Alfred D. Decelles


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