court of conscience

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In canonical matters precepts may be given by religious superiors, parish priests, rectors of seminaries, and for the court of conscience by the confessor.

From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Callan, Charles Jerome

He lays open obscurities, and is praised for the speech of truth; and in the court of conscience pleads much in forma pauperis, for small fees.

From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various

It is therefore for the consequences of an insane delusion only that a man is not responsible before the inward court of conscience and the outward courts of justice.

From Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence by Coppens, Charles

Of the moral question the arbiter could take no account; it is not there, indeed, that moral questions must find their solution, but in the court of conscience.

From Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)

One may have worried long in the preparation and preliminaries of the issue, one may bring the case at last into the final court of conscience in an apparently hopeless tangle.

From God the Invisible King by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)