• An ordinance or ecclesiastical ordinance is a type of law, legal instrument, or by-law in the canon law of the Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion...
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  • 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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    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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  • Christian churches Canon (canon law), a law or ordinance promulgated by a synod, ecumenical council, or individual bishop (within the canon law system of that...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • law Federal law (National law) State law Local ordinance History of law Cuneiform law Babylonian law Ancient Greek law Roman law Early Germanic law Legal...
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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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  • 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 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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  • portions of the canon law for the 23 Eastern Catholic Churches in the Catholic Church. It is divided into 30 titles and has a total of 1546 canons. The code...
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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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  • meeting in 1572. Through the ordinance, all the fundamental Lutheran doctrines were written down and Catholic canon law formally lost its authority. Petri's...
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    Catholic canon law. Aquinas defines a law as "an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community, and promulgated." Law is...
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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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  • students of law mastered the Ius commune, a pan-European legal system that held sway during that span. It was composed of canon (church) law and Roman and...
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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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  • Notary (Catholic canon law) Protonotary apostolic Apostolic constitution Canon Concordat Decree Decretal Encyclical Motu proprio Ordinance Papal brief Papal...
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  • Catholic canon law are the fields of philosophical, theological (ecclesiological), and legal scholarship which concern the place of canon law in the nature...
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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, the loss of clerical state (commonly referred to as laicization, dismissal, defrocking, and degradation) is the...
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  • jurisprudence of Catholic canon law is the complex of legal theory, traditions, and interpretative principles of Catholic canon law. In the Latin Church,...
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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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  • 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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  • A donation, in the context of the canon law of the Roman Catholic Church, is the gratuitous transfer to another of some right or thing. When it consists...
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  • In Catholic canon law, the canon law of contract follows that of the civil jurisdiction in which Catholic canon law operates (Latin contractus; Old French...
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    §1, CIC, 1983 can. 8 §2, CIC, 1983 Canon 7, 1983 CIC Chowdhury, Kavita (23 December 2014). "Govt points to Ordinance route for crucial bills". Business...
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  • In Catholic canon law, an interdict (/ˈɪntərdɪkt/) is an ecclesiastical censure, or ban that prohibits certain persons or groups from participating in...
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    Decree (redirect from Royal Ordinance)
    were called more precisely constitutions or declarations. Canon 29 of the 1983 Code of Canon Law defines general decrees: General decrees, by which a competent...
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