Sanctuary

Sanctuary
Related Category: Legal Terms and Concepts
sacred place, especially the most sacred part of a sacred place.

Sanctuary
A special criminal law option available in Medieval times to persons who had just committed a crime, allowing them to seek refuge in a church or monastery.

SANCTUARY. A place of refuge, where the process of the law cannot be executed.

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Expanded Legal Definition of SanctionSanctuary A special criminal law option available in Medieval times to persons who had just committed a crime, allowing them to seek refuge in a church or monastery.

On the morning of the consecration, everything needed for the consecration, the sacred vessels, and all of the appertenances of the sanctuary (altar cloths, candlesticks, etc.) are prepared on a table placed in front of the Holy Doors, ...

It is urged by many critics that Moses cannot have prohibited the worship of Yahweh by images; for the subsequent history shows us a descendant of Moses as priest in the idolatrous sanctuary of Dan.

A man who had committed a felony, and for safety flea to a sanctuary might within forty days' confess the fact, and take the oath of abjuration and perpetual banishment; he was then transported. This was abolished.
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