Law
Law Law Portal Law (from the late Old English lagu of ... not follow the established rules of conduct. Law is typically administered through a system of ... just and fair. The manner in which law is administered is known as a ...
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Ecclesiastical benefice
Ecclesiastical benefice Popularly the term benefice is often ... the Church to a cleric to receive ecclesiastical revenues on account of the performance of ... causes and in the cases specified by law; a formal decree of ecclesiastical authority giving to certain funds or property ... this purpose by a formal act of ecclesiastical authority. Though these precariœ were in ...
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Ecclesiastical court
Ecclesiastical court An ecclesiastical court (also called "Court Christian") is any ... as they were experts in interpreting canon law the basis of which was the Corpus ... is considered the source of the civil law legal tradition. Roman Catholic Church Roman Catholic ... are governed by the Code of Canon Law in the case of the Western ...
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Canon law
Canon law Part of the series on Christianity History ... Protestantism Christian movements In Western culture, canon law is the law of the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches. The Eastern Orthodox concept of canon law is similar to but not identical to ... these canons formed the foundation of canon law. In the official Anglican Church of ...
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Appropriation (law)
Appropriation (law) Appropriation (from Latin appropriare, to set aside ... use to the exclusion of all other. Ecclesiastical law In ecclesiastical law, appropriation is the perpetual annexation of ...
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Canon law (Christianity wiki)
Canon law Note:This article had a "disputed" tag ... Protestantism Christian movements In Western culture , canon law is the law of the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches. The Eastern Orthodox concept of canon law is similar to but not identical to ... these canons formed the foundation of canon law. In the official Anglican Church of ...
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Ecclesiastical Latin
Ecclesiastical Latin The term Ecclesiastical Latin (sometimes called Church Latin) refers to ... Church and in particular for those undertaking ecclesiastical studies. Especially since the Second Vatican Council ... holds for the official texts of canon law. After the use of Latin as an ... been approved according to the norm of law. Except in the case of celebrations ...
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Ecclesiastical marriage   (translated from Dutch)
Ecclesiastical marriage ecclesiastical marriage an obligation between a man and ... or gemeenschap . Within the Protestant churches the ecclesiastical marriage is considered as inzegening of that ... taken place. Within Roman Catholic church the ecclesiastical marriage is considered as equivalently to the ... talk of a separation between civilly and ecclesiastical marriage, and a marriage simply in ...
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Ecclesiastical Commissioners
Ecclesiastical Commissioners ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSIONERS, in England, a body corporate, whose full title is Ecclesiastical and Church Estates Commissioners for England, invested ... a permanent commission was appointed by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act 1836 for the purpose of ... of the commission was amended by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act 1840 and subsequent acts, ...
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Affinity (law)
Affinity (law) In law and in cultural anthropology, affinity, as distinguished ... the matrimonial prohibitions by which the canon law has restricted relations by affinity. Taking the ... the husband's decease. See affinity (canon law) for more discussion. Briefly, direct affinity is ... the eighteenth chapter of Leviticus. Formerly by law in England, marriages within the degrees ...
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