canonist

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Canonist doctrine, dealt with by Sir W. Ashley, 2.

From An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching by O'Brien, George

When a Canonist had to grapple with any question of connivance of new impression, he sought, and never sought but found, ample guidance in the Old and New Testaments and in the Roman Civil Law.

From The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 5, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 5, May, 1886 by Various

But as to these opinions themselves, we may say, in the words of the learned Canonist, Ludovicus Gomez: "Opiniones secundum varietatem, temporum senescant et intermoriantur, aliæque diversæ vel prioribus contrarioe renescantur et deinde pubescant."

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert