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Canon law (Catholic Church)

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    1983 Code of Canon Law

    1983 codification of canonical legislation for the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church
    Overview: The 1983 Code of Canon Law (abbreviated 1983 CIC from its Latin title Codex Iuris Canonici), also called the Johanno-Pauline Code, is the "fundamental body of ecclesiastical laws for the Latin Church" ...
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    Rudolf von Scherer

    church law professor
    Rudolf von Scherer
    Overview: Rudolf Ritter von Scherer (11 August 1845, Graz – 21 December 1918, Vienna) was an Austrian religious law professor.
    Date of birth: 11 August 1845
    Date of death: 21 December 1918
    Age: 73 (age at death)
    Occupation: Jurist
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    Overview: A curia is an official body that governs a particular Church in the Catholic Church. These curias range from the relatively simple diocesan curia, to the larger patriarchal curias, to the Roman Curia ...
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    Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches

    Canon Law for the Eastern Catholic churches, legislated by the Holy See
    Overview: The Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches (Latin: Codex Canonum Ecclesiarum Orientalium, abbreviated CCEO) is the title of the 1990 codification of the common portions of the Canon Law for the 23 Eastern ...
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    Canonical coronation

    Catholic ceremonial crowning of an image of Mary or Jesus
    Canonical coronation
    Overview: A canonical coronation (Latin: coronatio canonica) is a pious institutional act of the Pope, duly expressed in a Papal bull in which oftentimes a Papal legate or Papal nuncio, or at rare occasions the ...
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    Overview: In 1983 the Catholic Church introduced the possibility of entrusting the pastoral care, of one or more parishes to a team of priests in solidum. This provision in the 1983 Code of Canon Law, which resembles ...
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    Vacatio legis

    Period between the announcement of a legislation and its entering into force
    Overview: Vacatio legis (Latin: absence of law) is a technical term in both Catholic canon law and civil law which refers to the period between the promulgation of a law and the time the law takes legal effect.
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    Incardination and excardination

    Catholic law tying priests to a superior
    Overview: Incardination is the formal term in the Catholic Church for a clergyman being under a bishop or other ecclesiastical superior. It is also sometimes used to refer to laity who may transfer to another part ...
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    Latae sententiae

    Ways sentences are imposed in the Catholic Church
    Overview: Latae sententiae is a Latin phrase, meaning "sentence (already) passed", used in the canon law of the Catholic Church. A latae sententiae penalty is one that follows ipso facto or automatically, by force ...
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    Canon law of the Catholic Church

    Canon law of the Catholic Church
    Overview: The canon law of the Catholic Church (Latin: jus canonicum) is the system of laws and legal principles made and enforced by the hierarchical authorities of the Catholic Church to regulate its external ...
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    Sui iuris

    concept in jurisprudence
    Overview: Sui iuris (or), also spelled sui juris, is a Latin phrase that literally means "of one's own right". It is used in both the Catholic Church's canon law and secular law. The term church sui iuris is used ...
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    Parish register

    Register with details of baptisms, marriages and burials
    Overview: A parish register in an ecclesiastical parish is a handwritten volume, normally kept in the parish church in which certain details of religious ceremonies marking major events such as baptisms (together ...
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    Philosophy, theology, and fundamental theory of canon law

    Fields of philosophical, theological, and legal scholarship
    Overview: The philosophy, theology, and fundamental theory of canon law are the fields of philosophical, theological (ecclesiological), and legal scholarship which concern the place of canon law in the nature of ...
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    Amovibility

    Condition of some Catholic priests
    Overview: Amovibility is the condition that applies to Roman Catholic priests who can be removed from their parish or post by their bishop.
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    College (canon law)

    collection of persons by Roman law
    Overview: A college, in the canon law of the Roman Catholic Church, is a collection (Latin: collegium) of persons united together for a common object so as to form one body. The members are consequently said to ...
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