benefit of clergy
短语n. 神职人员的特典（不受法院审讯），经教会认可的
释义与例句
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A legal provision by which clergymen (and, later, anybody who could read) could claim that they were outside the jurisdiction of the secular courts and be tried instead in an ecclesiastical court under canon law.
英国 历史 不可数 法律