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Rehabilitate

or privilege lost or forfeited a term of civil and canon law

Decretals

Decretals, a volume of the canon law, forming the second part, so called as containing the decrees

Deuterogamy

wife in distinction from bigamy as defined in the old canon law See Bigamy

Clementine

him or to Pope Clement V and his compilations of canon law

College of Justice

Scotland are known collectively as the College of Justice, the Canon Law status of a Collegium having been conferred upon them by

Corpus juris canonici

Corpus juris canonici. See CANON LAW.

Custos spiritualium

diocese, during the vacancy of any see, which, by the canon law, belongs to the dean and chapter, but at present, in

& 4 Wm. 4, c. 106), materially altered the old canons of real property descent, but because the Act does not … his estate by right of representation as his heir t law. The 'canons of inheritance' are the rules directing the descent

Nomocanon

Gk., law; and kavwv a rule]. 1 A collection of canons and imperial laws relative or conformable thereto. The first nomocanon

Church

by 13 Eliz. c. 12, in 1571; by the 141 Canons of 1603 agreed upon by the convocations of Canterbury and … and Custom of the Constitution). 'The establishment of the Churchby law,' says Lord Selborne, 'consists essentially in the incorporation of the

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