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  2. Dispensation (Catholic canon law) - Wikipedia

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    Catholicism portal. v. t. e. In the jurisprudence of the canon law of the Catholic Church, a dispensation is the exemption from the immediate obligation of the law in certain cases. [1] Its object is to modify the hardship often arising from the rigorous application of general laws to particular cases, and its essence is to preserve the law by ...

  3. Canon law of the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The canon law of the Catholic Church (from Latin ius canonicum[1]) is "how the Church organizes and governs herself". [2] It is the system of laws and ecclesiastical legal principles made and enforced by the hierarchical authorities of the Catholic Church to regulate its external organization and government and to order and direct the ...

  4. 1983 Code of Canon Law - Wikipedia

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    e. 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] It is the second and current comprehensive codification of canonical legislation for the Latin Church of the Catholic Church.

  5. Disparity of cult - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Disparity of cult, sometimes called disparity of worship (Disparitas Cultus), is a diriment impediment in Roman Catholic canon law: a reason why a marriage cannot be validly contracted without a dispensation, stemming from one person being certainly baptized, and the other certainly not baptized. Disparity of worship does not affect ...

  6. Privilege (Catholic canon law) - Wikipedia

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    Law of consecrated life. Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. Catholicism portal. v. t. e. Privilege in the canon law of the Roman Catholic Church is the legal concept whereby someone is exempt from the ordinary operation of the law over time for some specific purpose.

  7. Obreption and subreption (Catholic canon law) - Wikipedia

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    In Catholic Canon law, obreption is "the obtaining of or attempting to obtain a dispensation from ecclesiastical authority or a gift from the sovereign by fraud", [1] "a positive allegation of what is false". [2] Subreption in Catholic Canon law is "a concealment of the pertinent facts in a petition, as for dispensation or favor, that in ...

  8. Validation of marriage - Wikipedia

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    In Catholic canon law, a validation of marriage or convalidation of marriage is the validation of a Catholic putative marriage. A putative marriage is one when at least one party to the marriage wrongly believes it to be valid. [1] Validation involves the removal of a canonical impediment, or its dispensation, or the removal of defective ...

  9. Indult - Wikipedia

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    Canon law of theCatholic Church. In Catholic canon law, an indult is a permission or privilege, granted by the competent church authority – the Holy See or the diocesan bishop, as the case may be – for an exception from a particular norm of church law in an individual case. [1]