Six judgments of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in ecclesiastical cases 1850-1872. With hist.introd., notes & index

VG orig. violet cloth. Ffep skinned from removal of bookplate. xlviii, 284 p.; 19 cm. [First printed in 1872] `The Judgments are printed verbatim; Sheppard v. Bennett from an official copy' Contents -- Preface, Introduction, List of Judicial Committee -- Cases, on appeal from the Arches Court of Canterbury: Gorham v. Bishop of Exeter [George Cornelius Gorham v. Henry Phillpotts: on baptismal regeneration, 1849-50]; Liddell v. Westerton and Liddell v. Beal [Robert Liddell and others v. Charles Westerton and James Beal: on crosses and stone altars in the light of the Ornaments Rubric, 1857-60]; Williams v. Bishop of Salisbury [Rowland Williams v. Walter Kerr Hamilton] and Wilson v. Fendall [Henry Bristow Wilson v. James Fendall: over Essays and Reviews, 1863-64]; Martin v. Mackonochie [John Martin v. Alexander Heriot Mackonochie: on kneeling and use of candles in violation of Public Worship Regulation Act, 1868-70]; Hebbert v. Purchas [Henry Hebbert v. John Purchas: on vestments, eastward position, mixed chalice and wafer bread, 1871]; Sheppard v. Bennett [Thomas Byard Sheppard v. William James Early Bennett: on the real presence in the Eucharist, 1871-72] -- Appendix, notes A-K -- Index. -- Statement on the Gorham case begins: `It is not for the Court to decide whether opinions are theologically sound or unsound, but whether such opinions are contrary or repugnant to the doctrines, which the Church of England, by its Articles, Formularies, and Rubrics, requires to be held by its Ministers.'. 3rd impression edition. Binding is Hardcover. …