• Canon law (from Ancient Greek: κανών, kanon, a 'straight measuring rod, ruler') is a set of ordinances and regulations made by ecclesiastical authority...
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  • The canon law of the Catholic Church (from Latin ius canonicum) is "how the Church organizes and governs herself". It is the system of laws and ecclesiastical...
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    In canon law, a canon designates some law promulgated by a synod, an ecumenical council, or an individual bishop. The word "canon" comes from the Greek...
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  • include Christian canon law (applicable within a wider theological conception in the church, but in modern times distinct from secular state law), Jewish halakha...
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    The 1983 Code of Canon Law (abbreviated 1983 CIC from its Latin title Codex Iuris Canonici), also called the Johanno-Pauline Code, is the "fundamental...
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  • Licentiate of Canon Law (Latin: Juris Canonici Licentiatus; JCL) is the title of an advanced graduate degree with canonical effects in the Roman Catholic...
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    Legal history (redirect from History of Law)
    history of Catholic canon law, the oldest continuously functioning legal system in the West. Canon law originates much later than Roman law but predates the...
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  • Code of Canon Law (Latin: Codex Iuris Canonici) may refer to: Corpus Juris Canonici ('Body of Canon Law'), a collection of sources of canon law of the...
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  • Catholic canon law is the law of the 23 Catholic sui juris (autonomous) particular churches of the Eastern Catholic tradition. Eastern Catholic canon law includes...
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  • the jurisprudence of the canon law of the Catholic Church, a dispensation is the exemption from the immediate obligation of law in certain cases. Its object...
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  • In the canon law of the Catholic Church, an impediment is a legal obstacle that prevents a sacrament from being performed either validly or licitly or...
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    In Catholic canon law, affinity is an impediment to marriage of a couple due to the relationship which either party has as a result of a kinship relationship...
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  • Doctor of Canon Law (Latin: Juris Canonici Doctor, JCD) is the doctoral-level terminal degree in the studies of canon law of the Roman Catholic Church...
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    The 1917 Code of Canon Law (abbreviated 1917 CIC, from its Latin title Codex Iuris Canonici), also referred to as the Pio-Benedictine Code, is the first...
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    their own laws. Civil law codifications based closely on Roman law, alongside some influences from religious laws such as canon law, continued to spread...
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  • In the canon law of the Catholic Church, a person is a subject of certain legal rights and obligations. Persons may be distinguished between physical...
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    Canon 42 Catholic Church Canon Law. Retrieved 9 March 2008. Canon 375 Archived 19 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Catholic Church Canon Law. Retrieved...
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    extends, the canon law of the Catholic Church could not be clearer" and alleged that the Holy See's denial of competency contravenes canon law. Canon 331 states...
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  • Look up canon or Canon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Canon or Canons may refer to: Canon (fiction), the material accepted as officially written by...
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  • Canon Law, canon 1333". "Code of Canon Law, canon 1370". "Code of Canon Law, canon 1378". "Code of Canon Law, canon 1380". "Code of Canon Law, canon 1383"...
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  • confessor the faculty to absolve censures and penalties of 1917 Code of Canon Law's canon 2335 incurred by penitents who completely separated themselves from...
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  • faculty is a legal instrument or warrant in canon law, usually an authorisation to do something. In the canon law of the Catholic Church, a faculty is "the...
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  • CanonLaw.info "A Simple Overview of Canon Law", accessed June-11-2013 1983 Code of Canon Law Annotated, Canon 6 (pg. 34) Dr. Edward Peters, CanonLaw.info...
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  • Canon Law, this responsibility belongs to the college of consultors, unless the national bishops conference decides that the functions that canon law...
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    public officers or employees.[citation needed] Under Roman civil law, which the early canon law of the Catholic Church followed, couples were forbidden to marry...
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  • In the canon law of the Catholic Church, the loss of clerical state (commonly referred to as laicization, dismissal, defrocking, and degradation) is the...
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  • Catholic canon law. In the Code of Canon Law, Canon 149.3 notes that "Provision of an office made as a result of simony is invalid by the law itself."...
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  • Clandestinity is a diriment impediment in the canon law of the Roman Catholic Church. It invalidates a marriage performed without the presence of three...
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  • Code of Canon Law Canon 536 §1, 1983 Code of Canon Law Canon 492 1983 Code of Canon Law Canon 537, 1983 Code of Canon Law Code of Canon Law, canon 607 Code...
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  • Promulgation in the Catholic canon law is the publication of a law by which it is made known publicly, and is required by canon law for the law to obtain legal effect...
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