Codex Juris Canonici

[ joor-is-kuh-non-uh-sahy ]

/ ˈdʒʊər ɪs kəˈnɒn əˌsaɪ /

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noun Roman Catholic Church.

an official collection of general church law made effective in 1918.

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How to use Codex Juris Canonici in a sentence

After four years of hard work, I joined 485 of my fellow law school students as we were set to receive our Juris Doctor degrees.
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Ms. Mills received her Juris Doctor degree from Stanford Law School, where she was elected to the Stanford Law Review.
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The codex worked a revolution in human communication, and the human understanding of the text was never the same.
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Absent the codex, ideas would still be the province of a privileged priesthood.
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Juris consulti civiles infrequenter hoc modo offendunt, medici autem et moralistae crebro in errore isto versantur.
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The Madrid Library possesses a codex written in the latter part of the 15th century, containing the seventeen books.
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This is the principal codex existing in the Imperial Library, and was written in the 12th century.
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This codex contains the first nine books; the second part, containing the last eight, is lost.
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This pyramid was completed in 1467, but, according to the Codex Chimalpopoca, fell as soon as finished.
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British Dictionary definitions for Codex Juris Canonici

Codex Juris Canonici

/ (ˈkəʊdɛks ˈdʒʊərɪs kəˈnɒnɪˌsaɪ) /

noun

the official code of canon law in force in the Roman Catholic Church; introduced in 1918 and revised in 1983See also Corpus Juris Canonici

Word Origin for Codex Juris Canonici

Latin: book of canon law

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