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• Without Benefit of Clergy — Infobox Film name = Without Benefit of Clergy image size = caption = director = James Young producer = Robert Brunton writer = Rudyard Kipling Randolph Lewis narrator = starring = Nigel De Brulier Virginia Brown Faire music = cinematography =… …   Wikipedia

• without the benefit of — (or US without benefit of) : without the help of (something or someone) The band had to perform without benefit of a rehearsal. He was able to learn a great deal without the benefit of formal schooling. You shouldn t try to handle this problem… …   Useful english dictionary

• benefit of counsel — Advice from an attorney. Typically used in the negative ( without benefit of counsel ) to describe a situation in which a person was not advised by an attorney and therefore didn t appreciate the full import of his or her actions. Category:… …   Law dictionary

• benefit of clergy — n. 1. the exemption of the medieval clergy from trial or punishment except in a church court 2. an administering or sanctioning by the church [a couple that is married without benefit of clergy] …   English World dictionary

• Benefit of clergy — In English law, the benefit of clergy (Law Latin Privilegium clericale) was originally a provision by which clergymen could claim that they were outside the jurisdiction of the secular courts and be tried instead in an ecclesiastical court under… …   Wikipedia

• benefit of clergy — noun sanction by a religious rite they are living together without benefit of clergy • Hypernyms: ↑sanction * * * Etymology: translation of Medieval Latin beneficium clericale 1. : the privilege claimed by the medieval church of demanding a trial …   Useful english dictionary

• benefit — Advantage; profit; fruit; privilege; gain; interest. The receiving as the exchange for promise some performance or forbearance which promisor was not previously entitled to receive. Graphic Arts Finishers, Inc. v. Boston Redevelopment Authority,… …   Black's law dictionary

• benefit — Advantage; profit; fruit; privilege; gain; interest. The receiving as the exchange for promise some performance or forbearance which promisor was not previously entitled to receive. Graphic Arts Finishers, Inc. v. Boston Redevelopment Authority,… …   Black's law dictionary

• benefit — I n. 1) to derive, get, reap (a) benefit from 2) a death; fringe; sickness (BE); tax benefit 3) to be of benefit to 4) for smb. s benefit 5) (misc.) to give smb. the benefit of the doubt; without benefit of clergy II v. (D; intr.) to benefit from …   Combinatory dictionary

• benefit — n. & v. n. 1 a favourable or helpful factor or circumstance; advantage, profit. 2 (often in pl.) payment made under insurance or social security (sickness benefit). 3 a public performance or game of which the proceeds go to a particular player or …   Useful english dictionary

• benefit of clergy — 1. the rites or sanctions of a church. 2. formal marriage: living together without benefit of clergy. 3. the privilege claimed by church authorities to try and punish, by an ecclesiastical court, any member of the clergy accused of a serious… …   Universalium