Corpus Juris Canonici
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of Corpus Juris Canonici
Medieval Latin, literally: body of canon law
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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 D. J. (Dudley Julius) Medley
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 Alexander Barclay
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 John William Draper
You will find the same in a work called Corpus Juris Canonici, page 47, to be had in the Philadelphia Library.
From Popery! As it Was and as it Is Also, Auricular Confession; And Popish Nunneries by William Hogan
The Corpus Juris Canonici as it was known in the middle ages has not been translated.
From Readings in the History of Education Mediaeval Universities by Arthur Orlo Norton
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