The Bishop Of Ely v Close

Subject Matter

ECCLESIASTICAL LAW — Jurisdiction — Criminal Suit under Clergy Discipline Act, 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. c. 32) — Appeal in Matter of Law — Clergy Discipline Act, 1892, ss. 2, 12, 13 — Immoral Act — Offence against the Laws Ecclesiastical being an Offence against Morality and not being a Question of Doctrine or Ritual — Canons of 1603, Canons 75 and 109 — Writing and sending by Clergyman of an Obscene and Indecent Letter to an Unmarried Woman — Offence justiciable under Clergy Discipline Act, 1892 — Remission of Cause — Clergy Discipline Act Rules, 1892, rr. 72, 95 — Practice — Costs.