Decretals

British  

/ dɪˈkriːtəlz /

plural noun

1. RC Church a compilation of decretals, esp the authoritative compilation ( Liber Extra ) of Gregory IX (1234) which forms part of the Corpus Juris Canonici

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Example Sentences

So general was the terror inspired by Nicholas that the doctor of decretals, Jean de Penne, to whom they applied to draw the paper, refused unless his name should be kept inviolably secret, and nineteen years afterwards Bernard when on trial refused to reveal it until compelled to do so.

From Project Gutenberg

In the Liber Sextus of the Decretals, published by Boniface March 3, 1298, the pope included, with customary imperiousness, a canon commanding the absolute obedience of all secular officials to the orders of inquisitors under penalty of excommunication, which if endured for a year carried with it condemnation for heresy.

From Project Gutenberg

The cardinals whom Clement V. commissioned soon after to investigate the abuses of the Inquisition of Languedoc intimate broadly the nature of the frauds habitually practised, when they required the new jailers whom they appointed to swear to deliver to each captive without diminution the provisions supplied by the king, as well as those furnished by friends—an intimation confirmed by the decretals of Clement V. Their report shows that they were horror-struck with what they saw.

From Project Gutenberg

For the rapidity with which the Church assimilated the Roman law see the collection of decretals by Alexander III. post Concil.

From Project Gutenberg

X. I have elsewhere considered in some detail the growth of the spiritual jurisdiction of the Church, through the False Decretals, in the anarchy accompanying the fall of the Carlovingian empire.

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