Excerpt from Six Judgments of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in Ecclesiastical Cases, 1850-1872: With an Historical Introduction, Notes, and Index The jurisdiction of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council as a final Court of Appeal in causes ecclesiastical is part of the supremacy of the Crown, from which all jurisdiction, spiritual or temporal, is derived; but the ecclesiastical jurisdiction which flows from the supremacy is merely co-extensive with the temporal jurisdiction: tho Crown has no higher power in causes ecclesiastical than in temporal matters. The legal supremacy of. the Queen is defined in the thirty-seventh Article of the Church of England, as follows: - 'The Queen's Majesty hath the chief power in this realm of England, and other her dominions, unto whom the chief government of all estates of this realm, whether they be ecclesiastical or civil, in all causes doth appertain, and is not, nor ought to be, subject to any foreign jurisdiction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.