2. (Historical Terms) (in the Middle Ages) a privilege that placed the clergy outside the jurisdiction of secular courts and entitled them to trial in ecclesiastical courts

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benefit of clergy - sanction by a religious rite; "they are living together without benefit of clergy"

sanction - the act of final authorization; "it had the sanction of the church"

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