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17 Dec 2011, 12:27 am
Jones, 80 U.S. (13 Wall.) 679, 722-723 (with italics added):the religious congregation or ecclesiastical body holding the property is but a subordinate member of some general church organization in which there are superior ecclesiastical tribunals with a general and ultimate power of control more or less complete, in some supreme judicatory over the whole membership of that general organization.Under the jurisprudence developed by the courts following… [read post]