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Colloquy (law) In law, a colloquy is a routine, highly formalized conversation. [1] Conversations among the judge and lawyers (as opposed to testimony under oath) are colloquies. The term may be applied to the conversation that takes place when a defendant enters into a plea bargain and the judge is supposed to verify that the defendant ...
Plea colloquy. A plea colloquy, in United States criminal procedure, is a conversation between a judge and a criminal defendant who has been sworn under oath, which must occur when the defendant enters a guilty plea in court in order for the plea to be valid. [1] The United States Supreme Court has crafted a doctrine which requires the court to ...
A religious colloquy is a meeting to settle differences of doctrine or dogma, also called a colloquium (meeting, discussion), as in the historical Colloquy at Poissy, and like the legal colloquy, most often with a certain degree of judging involved. Religious colloquies are relatively common as a means to avoid calling full synods and avoiding ...
Anonymous woodcut, 1557. The Marburg Colloquy was a meeting at Marburg Castle, Marburg, Hesse, Germany, which attempted to solve a disputation between Martin Luther and Ulrich Zwingli over the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. It took place between 1 October and 4 October 1529. The leading Protestant reformers of the time attended at ...
Acallam na Senórach (Modern Irish: Agallamh na Seanórach, whose title in English has been given variously as Colloquy of the Ancients, Tales of the Elders of Ireland, The Dialogue of the Ancients of Ireland, etc.), is an important prosimetric Middle Irish narrative dating to c. 1200. [1] It is the most important text of the Finn Cycle (also ...
Look up colloquy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Colloquy may refer to: Colloquy (religious), a meeting to settle differences of doctrine or dogma. Colloquy (company), a loyalty marketing company based in Milford, Ohio. Colloquy (law), a legal term. Colloquy (IRC client), an IRC client for Mac OS X and iOS.
The Colloquies is a collection of dialogues or skits on a wide variety of subjects. They began in the late 1490s as informal Latin exercises for Erasmus' own pupils. The first official version, of 1518, was "a collection of formulae and conversational passages." [2]
Colloquy of Poissy. Painting by Joseph Nicolas Robert-Fleury. The Colloquy at Poissy was a religious conference which took place in Poissy, France, in 1561. Its object was to effect a reconciliation between the Roman Catholics and Protestants ( Huguenots) of France. [ 1]