Tag: Canon Law

  • Heraldry

    Meaning of Heraldry in the Past The art or office of a herald. It is the art, practice or science of recording genealogies and blazoning arms or ensigns armorial. It also teaches whatever relates to the marshaling of cavalcades, processions and other public ceremonies. Encyc.; Ridley’s View of […]

  • Pursuer

    The name by which the complainant or plaintiff is known in the ecclesiastical courts. 3 Ecc. 350. …

  • Official

    Legal Definition and Related Resources of Official Meaning of Official A person who holds an office . proceeding from, sanctioned by or done by an officer , pertaining to an office. Official Alternative […]

  • Prohibitive Impediments

    Prohibitive Impediments

    Those impediments to a marriage which are only followed by a punishment, but do not render the marriage null. Bovyyer, Mod. Civ. Law, 44. …

  • Bigamus

    Bigamus

    Meaning of Bigamus in the Past One guilty of bigamy. [1] Resources Notes and References Partialy, this information about bigamus is based on the Bouvier´s Law Dictionary, 1848 edition. There is a list of terms of the Bouvier´s Law Dictionary, including bigamus. See Also

  • Bigamus

    Bigamus

    Meaning of Bigamus in the Past One guilty of bigamy. [1] Resources Notes and References Partialy, this information about bigamus is based on the Bouvier´s Law Dictionary, 1848 edition. There is a list of terms of the Bouvier´s Law Dictionary, including bigamus. See Also

  • Faculty

    Faculty

    In Canon Law. A license; an authority. For example, the ordinary, having the disposal of all seats in the nave of a church, may grant this power, which, when it is delegated, is called a faculty, to another. Faculties are of two kinds: First, when the grant is to a man and his […]

  • Dirimant Impediments

    Dirimant Impediments

    Those bars which annul a consummated marriage. …

  • Ecclesiastics

    Meaning of Ecclesiastics in the Past Those people who compose the hierarchial state of the church. They are regular and secular. Aso & Man. Inst. B. 2, t. 5, c. 4, 1. [1] Resources Notes and References Partialy, this information about ecclesiastics is based on the Bouvier´s Law […]

  • Ecclesiastics

    Meaning of Ecclesiastics in the Past Those people who compose the hierarchial state of the church. They are regular and secular. Aso & Man. Inst. B. 2, t. 5, c. 4, 1. [1] Resources Notes and References Partialy, this information about ecclesiastics is based on the Bouvier´s Law […]

  • Extravagantes

    Extravagantes

    Meaning of Extravagantes in the Past This is the name given to the constitutions (see more about this popular legal topic in the U.S. encyclopedia) of the popes posterior to the Clementines; they are therefore, called quasi vagantes extra corpus juris, to express that they were out of the […]

  • Collectio Brugensis

    Concept and History of Collectio Brugensis decretal collection compiled at Reims shortly after 1187. Derived from an exemplar belonging to the Wigorniensis-Group, it later served as a source of the Collectio Sangermanensis.Read more topics about canon law (including relating to collectio […]

  • Summa Reginensis

    Concept and History of Summa Reginensis a Bolognese commentary on the Decretum. The drafting obviously took several years. For the first part, chronological indications do not go beyond the pontificate of Urban III (1185-87), while the latter section (C.27 ff.) cites decretals after Compilatio […]

  • Notabilia Ad Instantiam Quorundam

    Concept and History of Notabilia Ad instantiam quorundam a collection based on Gratian’s Decretum, written at Bologna prior to Lateran IV (1215).Read more topics about canon law (including relating to notabilia ad instantiam quorundam) . Here are a comprehensive list of […]

  • Quaestiones Orielenses I-II

    Concept and History of Quaestiones Orielenses I-II a collection of probably English origin, which includes several decretal-references, but does not cite them after Compilatio I (1191). The information about another set of quaestiones in the same Oxford manuscript is scanty. They cite Vacarius […]