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Meanings of canon lawyer in English
Jurist or lawyer specialised in church law and guidelines.
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Examples for "canonist"
Examples for "canonist"
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Of this very case, Reiffenstuel, a canonist of repute, about the year 1700, writes:
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Ashley says that 'the prohibition of usury was clearly the centre of the canonist doctrine.
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His father and grandfather, the latter a celebrated jurist and canonist, had been judges in that city.
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All art indeed in this sense rests on science; but the science on which the canonist doctrine rested was theology.
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ANDREA, GIOVANNI (1275-1348), Italian canonist, was born at Mugello, near Florence, about 1275.
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Roman historical composition had its origin in the pontifical college of ecclesiastical lawyers, and preserved to its close the uncritical spirit which characterised its fountain-head.
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Another is Earle Cooley, a church lawyer who also chairs the board of Boston University.
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But no especially clever Church lawyer would be needed to develop an annulment action.
Usage of canon lawyer in English
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The last time I heard Mary Raftery on the radio, she was taking grief m a canon lawyer.
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A leading canon lawyer, Father Tom Doyle, has expressed disquiet with the way cases have been handled within the archdiocese.
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However, this was rejected as "misleading, totally false and wrong" by Irish canon lawyer Dr Michael Mullaney last night.
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An American canon lawyer says he suspects there is a great deal more to the story of what is happening in Maynooth seminary.
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The one-time canon lawyer first blew the whistle on the global abuse scandal in 1984 and his work featured in the Academy Award-winning film Spotlight.
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A canon lawyer and former US air force chaplain, in 1985 he helped draft a report on clerical child sex abuse for America's Catholic bishops.
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You've tried the canon lawyers; now try the theologians.
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I'm sure there were several canon lawyers around at the time, perhaps even one or two among the bishopric.
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