Long v.

Bishop of Cape Town (1863) 1 Moo PCCNS 411 at 465; 15 ER 756 at 776 (per
Lord Kingsdown) is an important case. Here the Privy Council decided that "the oath
of canonical obedience does not mean that every clergyman will obey all the
commands of the Bishop against which there is no law, but that he will obey all
such commands as the Bishop is by law authorised to impose".