religious courts
Ecclesiastical judicial bodies
Religious courts are judicial bodies that apply religious law to resolve disputes, typically matters of marriage, divorce, inheritance, and personal status.
In some countries, religious courts operate alongside civil courts with jurisdiction over adherents of particular faiths: The case was heard in a sharia court.
In others, they function as private arbitration panels whose rulings depend on voluntary submission by the parties.
Religious courts may be Jewish (beth din), Islamic (sharia courts), Christian (ecclesiastical courts), or of other traditions.
- Sharia lawIslamic religious legal framework
- HalakhaFormal Jewish legal system
- sacred textsHoly religious writings
- FiqhMuslim legal theory
- family lawJurisprudence of households
divorce proceedings · annulment · marriage annulment · fatwa
- Islamic Lawsharia, Sharia, Shariah, Islamic law, fatwa
- oppressionoppression, tyranny, racism, repression, secret police
- religious issueschurch and state, interfaith, blasphemy laws, prayer in schools, conscientious objection
- Halakhahalakhah, halacha, Jewish law, mitzvot, commandments
- African lawindigenous law, attorney general, penal code, statutory law, legal practitioner
- Gulf Lawroyal decrees, Islamic finance, fatwa, morality police
religious courtscivil courts
Courts handling private disputes
state courts · federal courts · municipal courts · district courts · crown courts
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