"benefit of clergy" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1944, George Orwell, Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali:",
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        "(UK, law, historical) 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."
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