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Canon law (from
Ancient Gr****: κανών, kanon, a 'straight
measuring rod, ruler') is a set of
ordinances and
regulations made by
ecclesiastical authority...
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Ecclesiastical Law Society is an
organization based in the
United Kingdom that says it "exists to
promote the
study of
ecclesiastical and
canon law particularly...
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law of the
Catholic Church (from
Latin ius canoni****) is "how the
Church organizes and
governs herself". It is the
system of
laws and
ecclesiastical legal...
- courts, e.g. in
family law, are
still known as
courts ecclesiastical as
distinct from
courts temporal. In the
Middle Ages,
ecclesiastical courts had much wider...
- decision.
About this time,
Hooker began to
write his
major work Of the
Laws of
Ecclesiastical Polity, a
critique of the
Puritans and
their attacks on the Church...
- In
English ecclesiastical law, the term in****bent
refers to the
holder of a
Church of
England parochial charge or benefice. The term "benefice" originally...
-
particularly used in the
plural in
English law for the
waste committed by the in****bent of an
ecclesiastical living the
disrepair for
which a
tenant is...
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law (Ancient Gr****: κανών, romanized: kanon, lit. 'a
straight measuring rod; a ruler') is a set of
ordinances and
regulations made by
ecclesiastical authority...
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Byzantine law was
essentially a
continuation of
Roman law with
increased Orthodox Christian and ****enistic influence. Most
sources define Byzantine law as the...
- bound, by
Divine law or
human law, with a
permanent ecclesiastical office. Its
possessor is
called an
ordinary judge. By
Divine law the Pope has such...
