ARCHDEACON'S COURT

ARCHDEACON'S COURT, is the most inferior court in the whole ecclesiastical polity. It is held in the archdeacon's absence, before a judge appointed by himself and called his official; and its jurisdiction is sometimes

Archdruid in concurrence with, sometimes in exclusion of, the bi-
shop's court of the diocese. From hence, however, by
statute 24 Hen. VIII. c. 12. there lies an appeal to that
of the bishop.