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Leviticus
The third canonical book of the Old Testament containing the laws and regulations relating to the priests and Levites among the … The third canonical book of the Old Testament containing the laws and regulations relating to the priests and Levites among the Hebrews or the body of the ceremonial law
Inheritance
of inheritance. Inheritance Act.--The Inheritance Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 106), materially altered the old canons of real property descent, but because the Act does not extend to any descent which took place on … man, on the death of his ancestor, acquires his estate by right of representation as his heir t law. The 'canons of inheritance' are the rules directing the descent of real property throughout the lineal and collateral
Extravagantes
digested or arranged with the other papal constitutions, but seemed to be, as it were, detached from the canon law. They continued to be called by the same name when they were afterwards inserted in the body of … continued to be called by the same name when they were afterwards inserted in the body of the canon law. The first extravagantes are those of Pope John XXII., successor of Clement V. The last collection was brought
Bastard
the parents afterwards intermarried, but a proposal by the bishops to assimilate the law of England to the canon law in this respect was rejected by Parliament in 1235. See MERTON, STATUTE OF. The law of England remained
Nomocanon
Nomocanon [fr. vopus, Gk., law; and kavwv a rule]. 1 A collection of canons and imperial laws relative or conformable thereto. The first nomocanon was made by Johannes Scholasticus in 554. Photius,
Church
by convocation in Londin in 1562, and confirmed by 13 Eliz. c. 12, in 1571; by the 141 Canons of 1603 agreed upon by the convocations of Canterbury and York, and ratified by James I.; and by … built into the fabric of the State' (Law and Custom of the Constitution). 'The establishment of the Churchby law,' says Lord Selborne, 'consists essentially in the incorporation of the law of the Church into that of the
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