An English tribunal composed of delegates appointed by royal commission, and formerly the great court of appeal in all ecclesiastical causes The powers of the court were, by 2 & 3 Wm. IV. c. 92, transferred to the privy council. A commission of review was formerly granted, in extraordinary cases, to revise a sentence of the court of delegates, when that court had apparently been led into material error. Brown; 3 Bl. Comm. 66.
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