Joe Kelley
Administrator
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It has been my intent to find connecting information concerning the history offered by Frank O'Collins and the work in Trial by Jury done by Lysander Spooner.
Here is a possible example:
Holy See
This first use of "Holy See" to mean specifically, the legal personality of office of a bishop began under Pope Boniface VIII when he issued his famous Papal Bull on February 25, 1296 that decreed that "all prelates or other ecclesiastical superiors who under whatsoever pretext or color shall, without authority from the Holy See, pay to laymen (general public) any part of their income or of the revenue of the Church, likewise all emperors, kings, dukes, counts, etc. who shall exact or receive such payments, incur eo ipso the sentence of excommunication." The Papal Bull was in response to the growing promulgation of charters and letters by nobles across Europe following the Magna Carta in 1215. Some of these documents has the technical legal effect of placing the property of the church "under" a sovereign, therefore at risk of seizure when a powerful bishop died. The creation of the concept of a legal personality called the "Holy See" that existed prior to a bishop and continued on after a bishop died was a way of overcoming this threat.
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