[siunevada]

The idea that clergymen are immune to civil law - that rates as evil

'Civil law' of the time consisted in whatever the king willed and was able to enforce. Must not have been a very popular 'British' concept given that the Magna Carta was signed in 1215.

[Oztrich Boy]

'Civil law' of the time consisted in whatever the king willed and was able to enforce.

And yet The Constitution of the United States of America - Fifth Amendment--Rights of Persons with the imprimatur of The Unites States Senate, gives more credit for Henry II's Assize of Clarendon of 1166 as a basis of US civil law than Becket's benefit of clergy.