CONSISTORY COURT, in the English law, is a council of ecclesiastical persons, or the place of justice in an ecclesiastical or spiritual court. Every diocesan bishop has a consistory court, which is held before his chancellor or commissary, in their several cathedrals, or in some other convenient place of the diocese, for the trial of all ecclesiastical causes arising within their respective dioceses, and for granting probates and administrations. Under the 24th Hen. VIII., cap. 12, an appeal lies to the archbishop of the province from the decision of the consistory court.