1) English legal terminology 2) The offense
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In English history, Praemunire or Praemunire facias was a law which prohibited the assertion or maintenance of papal jurisdiction, imperial or foreign, or some other alien jurisdiction or claim of supremacy in England, against the supremacy of the monarch. This law was enforced by the Writ of Praemunire facias, a writ of summons from which the law...
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• (n.) The writ grounded on that offense. • (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 penalty ascribed for the offense of praemunire.
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Three acts of the English Parliament passed 1353, 1365, and 1393, aimed to prevent appeal to the pope against the power of the king, and therefore an early demonstration of independence from Rome....
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In English law, praemunire is a kind of offence of a nature of contempt against the Sovereign and the government. The last prosecution of praemunire took place in the reign of Charles II.
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In England a charge of appealing to a foreign power, e.g. the Pope for matters in England that were under the King's jurisdiction. Henry used the charge and the threat of this charge to abrogate the English clergy's loyalty to the Pope after he asserted his supremacy over the Church of England.
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a writ charging the offense of resorting to a foreign court or authority, as that of the pope, and thus calling in question the supremacy of the English crown. · the offense. · the penalty of forfeiture, imprisonment, outlawry, etc., incurred.
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