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Canonist

Canonist, a professor of ecclesiastical law.

A professor of canon law one skilled in the knowledge and practice of ecclesiastical law

Of or pertaining to a canonist

a family. See the Arbor civilis of the civilians and canonists, Hale's Com. Law, 335.

one another. Deeds thus made were denominated syngrapha by the canonists, and with us chirographa, or hand writings. Chirograph was also

Compensatio criminum (compensation of offences), a term used by the canonists. Where husband and wife and both been guilty of adultery,

of his degree. Degradation is otherwise called deposition, but the canonists have distingui-shed between these two terms, deeming the former as

do something forbidden, an allowance to omit something commanded, the canonistic name for a license. See also BILL OF RIGHTS.

tables of religious houses, and called mensal benefices amongst the canonists, Blount.

benefice into the hands of the ordinary, called by the canonists 'renunciation'; and though it is synonymous with surrender, yet it