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This canon law has principles of legal interpretation, [10] and coercive penalties. [11] It lacks civilly-binding force in most secular jurisdictions. Those who are versed and skilled in canon law, and professors of canon law, are called canonists [12] [13] (or colloquially, canon lawyers [12] [14]). Canon law as a sacred science is called ...
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 ...
This is a chronological list of canon lawyers. The listing is by date of death. Albert Avogadro (1149–1214) Bernardus Compostellanus Antiquus (13th century) Laurentius Hispanus (died 1248) Bartholomew of Brescia (died 1258) Henry of Segusio (Hostiensis) (c. 1200–1271) William Durandus, the Younger (died 1328) Astesanus de Ast (died c. 1330)
As James Brundage has explained: "[by 1140], no one in Western Europe could properly be described as a professional lawyer or a professional canonist in anything like the modern sense of the term 'professional.' "[22]: 185 However, from 1150 onward, a small but increasing number of men became experts in canon law but only in furtherance of ...
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]
C. Julius Caesar (judge) Randolph Roque Calvo; Henricus Canisius; Thomas de Cantilupe; Domenico Capranica; Paulus Castrensis; Felice Cavagnis; Alejandro Arellano Cedillo
Huguccio the canon lawyer has traditionally been identified with the grammarian Huguccio Pisanus (Hugh of Pisa; Italian Uguccione da Pisa).The grammarian's principal work was the Magnae Derivationes or Liber derivationum, [7] which dealt with etymologies, and was based on the earlier Derivationes of Osbernus of Gloucester.
Raymond of Penyafort OP (Catalan: Sant Ramon de Penyafort, IPA: [ˈsan rəˈmon də ˌpɛɲəˈfɔɾ]; c. 1175 – 6 January 1275) was a Catalan friar with the Dominicans who was a canon lawyer. He compiled the Decretals of Gregory IX, a collection of canonical laws that remained a major part of Church law until the 1917 Code of Canon Law ...