The Catholic Question in America: Whether a Roman Catholic Clergyman Be in Any Case Compellable to Disclose the Secrets of Auriecular Confession; Decided at the Court of General Sessions, in the City of New York (Classic Reprint)FB&C Limited, 8. 8. 2015 - 272 strán (strany) Excerpt from The Catholic Question in America: Whether a Roman Catholic Clergyman Be in Any Case Compellable to Disclose the Secrets of Auriecular Confession; Decided at the Court of General Sessions, in the City of New York And now may it please the court, to bear with me while I examine the decisions upon which this rule is at; tempted to be supported. At the outset I boldly affirm, without fear of contradiction, that the Attorney General can produce but two cases, in which the question has ever been raised in relation to a clergyman neither. Of which can be of authority in the United States, both hav ing been decided since our revolution.-i go farther - I say the cases would not be binding in Great Britain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |