Examples of consistory

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
The vice-chancellor was nonetheless at times confronted by tangible hostility in the consistory from those summoned to court in office proceedings.
Gradually, therefore, women became the only plaintiffs to prosecute in consistory courts.
No town council minutes have survived from 1560 to 1580, and consistory records are only available for 1595-8.
In both consistories, the church officials were voted into their posts by the church community.
Although the bill was never passed, it was probably with such deliberations in mind that the consistory court delivered their (perhaps surprisingly lenient) sentence.
Most church property was confiscated and the authorities purged the consistory of members perceived as disloyal to the system, replacing them with persons regarded as unlikely to cause trouble.
Given the city's turbulent history, it is not surprising that there are virtually no tax-records, hardly any original city council minutes and no consistory court registers.
His detailed descriptions of the inner workings of the consistory, for instance, reveal apparently genuine concern about domestic stability and a generally consistent judiciousness and restraint in achieving the same.
Finally, what appears in the consistory register is a systematic exposition of the functions of the various church officials, specifying their roles and providing a blueprint for action.
It would be misleading to characterize the consistory as biased if that implies a set of relevant individual distinctions not shared by the majority of its society.
Prussia had a network of consistories that oversaw all preachers, both rural and urban.