Area of law regulating the relationship between state and churches.
Synonyms
Examples for "canon law"
Examples for "canon law"
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Such questions have relevance in light of the church's canon law system.
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Under such circumstances canon law stipulates that the choice falls to bishops.
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The canon law of the church was abolished and its study prohibited.
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The old prohibitions of the now declining canon law were still observed.
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From 1190, the civil law was studied, and shortly thereafter, canon law.
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But even then, ecclesiastical law and civil law were never quite one.
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It was a period of great rigor in ecclesiastical law, especially among the Spaniards.
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The second kind of Vyavahara or Law is the ecclesiastical law of the Vedas.
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At an early age I studied theology and ecclesiastical law.
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Akin to these divine laws is the purely ecclesiastical law or law of the Church.
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The ecclesiastical law had a doctrine for women-covert, i.e.
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The difference is one of ecclesiastical law.
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The eager mind of Leonie Leon caught at this bit of ecclesiastical law and used it with great ingenuity.
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But he would have a clean sweep made of the so-called ecclesiastical law, contained in the law-books of the Church.
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And the idea of this change in ecclesiastical law had come to him because he lived in a waste bog.
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The defect of the ecclesiastical law, which offers serious impediments to the discipline necessary, cannot but be deemed a grievance.
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Ah, you have been studying ecclesiastical law, I see,-anerror like that of the sick man that reads medical works.
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We ought to think ourselves happy in the enjoyment of opinion, without the danger of persecution by civil or ecclesiastical law.
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The Jesuits peculiarly represented the old order that was changing, and the authority of the ecclesiastical law that was being restrained.
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The Church favoured a union which had been sanctified by the oblation and the blessing, but no ecclesiastical law imposed this ceremony.
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This is none other than that law of which a far later ecclesiastic, writing also of ecclesiastical law, discoursed in this wise:
