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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 ...
v. t. e. Catholic canon law is the set of rules and principles (laws) by which the Catholic Church is governed, through enforcement by governmental authorities. [clarification needed][citation needed] Law is also the field which concerns the creation and administration of laws.
C. Catholic Church legal terminology (3 C, 70 P) Catholic liturgical law (4 C, 19 P) Catholic matrimonial canon law (1 C, 25 P) Catholic particular churches sui iuris (2 C, 2 P) Catholic penal canon law (11 C, 24 P) Catholic procedural canon law (2 C, 8 P)
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]
Catholic canon law also lays down rules for licit, also called lawful, placing of the act, along with criteria to determine its validity or invalidity. Valid but illicit or valid but illegal ( Latin : valida sed illicita ) is a description applied in the Catholic Church to describe either an unauthorized celebration of a sacrament or an ...
In the Catholic Church, canon law is the system of laws and legal principles made and enforced by the church's hierarchical authorities to regulate its external organization and government and to order and direct the activities of Catholics toward the mission of the church. [ 10 ] It was the first modern Western legal system [ 11 ] and is the ...
For legal terminology (legal words and phrases) originating in the canon law of the Catholic Church. For articles about general legal concepts, procedures, etc., see Category: Canon law of the Catholic Church .
c.— canon /canonum, or coram (see "cor." below) cc.—canons/canones. CCEO— Codex Canonum Ecclesiarum Orientalium. CDF— Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith or Congregatio pro Doctrina Fidei. CDWDS— Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. ch.—chapter/caput.