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The Catholic Church has what is claimed to be the oldest continuously functioning internal legal system in Western Europe, [17] much later than Roman law but predating the evolution of modern European civil law traditions. The history of Latin canon law can be divided into four periods: the jus antiquum, the jus novum, the jus novissimum and ...
1917 Code of Canon Law, code of canon law for the Catholic Latin Church from 1918 to 1983; 1983 Code of Canon Law, code of canon law for the Catholic Latin Church from 1983 to today; Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, code of canon law for the Catholic Eastern Church from 1991 to today; The Pedalion, an Eastern Orthodox treatise on canon ...
The term source or fountain of canon law (fons iuris canonici) may be taken in a twofold sense: a) as the formal cause of the existence of a law, and in this sense of the fontes essendi (Latin: "sources of being") of canon law or lawgivers; b) as the material channel through which laws are handed down and made known, and in this sense the ...
The 1983 Code of Canon Law (abbreviated 1983 CIC from its Latin title Codex Iuris Canonici), also called the Johanno-Pauline Code, [1] [2] is the "fundamental body of ecclesiastical laws for the Latin Church". [3]
For example, discovery in common law jurisdictions came about in part because of the influence of canon law on courts of equity. [11] Edson Luiz Sampel, a Brazilian expert in canon law, says that canon law is contained in the genesis of various institutes of civil law, such as the law in continental Europe and Latin American countries.
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1983 Code of Canon Law – 1983 codification of canonical legislation for the Latin Catholic Church Omnium in mentem – 2009 motu proprio of Pope Benedict XVI; Magnum principium – 2017 apostolic letter by Pope Francis; Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches – Eastern Catholic code of canon law
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