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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 suspending its operation in ...
The Catholic Church utilizes the oldest continuously functioning legal system in the West, [1] 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 the Code of Canon Law . [ 2 ]
Dispensation may refer to: Dispensation (Catholic canon law) , the suspension, by competent authority, of general rules of law in particular cases in the Catholic Church Dispensation (period) , a period in history according to various religions
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 ...
In the canon law of the Roman Catholic Church, a dispensation is the exemption from the immediate obligation of law in certain cases. [20] 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 suspending its operation in such cases. [ 21 ]
The same author, Woods, called the Decretum "the first comprehensive and systematic legal treatise in the history of the West, and perhaps in the history of mankind – if by 'comprehensive' is meant the attempt to embrace virtually the entire law of a given polity, and if by 'systematic' is meant the express effort to codify that law as a ...
Person (Catholic canon law) Formal act of defection from the Catholic Church; Canonical age; Emancipation; Exemption; Heresy; Clerics Secular clergy; Regular clergy; Obligation of celibacy; Clerics and public office; Incardination and excardination; Laicization (dispensation) Canonical faculties; Office Canonical provision. Canonical election ...
Person (Catholic canon law) Formal act of defection from the Catholic Church; Canonical age; Emancipation; Exemption; Heresy; Clerics Secular clergy; Regular clergy; Obligation of celibacy; Clerics and public office; Incardination and excardination; Laicization (dispensation) Canonical faculties; Office Canonical provision. Canonical election ...