Definition of Canonists. Meaning of Canonists. Synonyms of Canonists

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Definition of Canonists

Canonist
Canonist Can"on*ist, n. [Cf. F. canoniste.] A professor of canon law; one skilled in the knowledge and practice of ecclesiastical law. --South.

Meaning of Canonists from wikipedia

- 2000. Brundage, James A. The Medieval Origins of the Legal Profession: Canonists, Civilians, and Courts. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c2008. Brundage...
- versed and skilled in canon law, and professors of canon law, are called canonists (or colloquially, canon lawyers). Canon law as a sacred science is called...
- as the Corpus Juris Canonici. It was used as the main source of law by canonists of the Roman Catholic Church until the Decretals, promulgated by Pope...
- Hierocracy (medieval) Plenitudo potestatis Kenneth Pennington, Popes, Canonists and Texts, 1150-1550. Brookfield, VT: Variorum (1993), pp. XVI.1, XVI...
- Regarding the canon law of the Catholic Church, canonists provide and obey rules for the interpretation and acceptation of words, in order that legislation...
- licence. The licentiate of canon law is the ordinary way for forming ****ure canonists, according to Veritatis gaudium. Licentiate programs in canon law involve...
- churches or are parish ****istants. Under the head of removable dignitaries, canonists generally class also vicars-general, archdeacons, and rural deans. Such...
- Álvaro Jordi d'Ors Pérez-Peix (14 April 1915 – 1 February 2004) was a Spanish scholar of Roman law, currently considered one of the best 20th-century experts...
- decree, and Boniface concurring (not revoking it), ended any doubt among canonists about the possibility of a valid papal renunciation. Gregory XII (1406–1415)...
- term emplo**** by medieval canonists to describe the jurisdictional power of the papacy. In the thirteenth century, the canonists used the term plenitudo...