Ordinances and regulations made by Church leadership for the government of a Christian organization or church and its members.
The body of codified laws governing the affairs of a Christian church.
1Such questions have relevance in light of the church's canon law system.
2Under such circumstances canon law stipulates that the choice falls to bishops.
3The canon law of the church was abolished and its study prohibited.
4The old prohibitions of the now declining canon law were still observed.
5From 1190, the civil law was studied, and shortly thereafter, canon law.
6The judges were career civil servants knowledgeable in the civil and canon law.
7The justices were career civil servants knowledgeable in the civil and canon law.
8These consequences were implied in the neglect of the canon law.
9A Doctorate in civil or canon law required eight more years.
10The Law Faculty embraced civil and canon law, as worked out at Bologna.
11Mr McAleese's wife is currently living in Rome where she is studying canon law.
12He did not, he declared, want to force them: that was against canon law.
13Under canon law, wives were deprived of the control of both person and property.
14Coadjutor Archbishop of Armagh Eamon Martin automatically succeeds to both positions under canon law.
15His studies were comprehensive, including civil law, canon law, medicine, mathematics, and the classics.
16Tells about late changes in the new canon law.
Translations for canon law