Corpus Juris Canonici
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of Corpus Juris Canonici
Medieval Latin, literally: body of canon law
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In the Corpus Juris Canonici we find at the end of the decretals a collection of ancient maxims, of general application, culled chiefly from the Roman Law, and promulgated by Pope Boniface VIII.
From The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 5, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 5, May, 1886 by Various
All these, together with the earlier compilations and some later additions, formed the Corpus Juris Canonici.
From The Church and the Empire, Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304 by Medley, D. J. (Dudley Julius)
The quotations are made apparently direct from the Vulgate, in only a few cases there being a qualification of the idea by the interpretation of the Corpus Juris Canonici.
From The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 by Barclay, Alexander
The following authoritative principles are divulged in the Corpus Juris Canonici, which contains the Decretals, Canons, &c. of the Popes and Councils; and other participants of the pretended Papal infallibility.
From Awful Disclosures Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never before Published by Monk, Maria
To these followed the Clementine Constitutions, a seventh book of Decretals, and "A Book of Institutes," published together, by Gregory XIII., in 1580, under the title of "Corpus Juris Canonici."
From History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science by Draper, John William
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