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canon law

noun as in church law

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Ensure that legislation will not affect the canon law of the Church of England or the Church in Wales.

Dr. Adam Weishaupt, professor of canon law at Ingolstadt, founded the secret society of the illuminati.

The civil and the canon law, as well as the law of England, all declared that a man should be held liable only for his own acts.

By the canon law obstinate heretics were to be burnt by the secular The 15th century.

The word, in somewhat a similar sense, had its origin in the canon law.

You have surely given him a great enough dose of diplomatics and canon law by this time.

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On this page you'll find 2 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to canon law, such as: christian religious law, and ecclesiastical law.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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