decretum

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This he issued in textbook form, about 1142, under the title of Decretum Gratiani.

From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson

His compilation of the Canon Law is usually referred to as the Decretum Gratiani.

From Readings in the History of Education Mediaeval Universities by Norton, Arthur Orlo

Its various canons have all been embodied in the Canon Law; for the references to the Decretum of Gratian, in which they appear, see Hefele, § 222.

From A Source Book for Ancient Church History by Ayer, Joseph Cullen

And with regard to the more frequent holding of Councils, he is said to have reminded the Fathers of the Decretum Perpetuum of Constance, that a Council should be assembled every ten years.

From Letters From Rome on the Council by D?llinger, Johann Joseph Ignaz von

The disciples of Gratian, in glossing or commenting on the Decretum, turned to the papal decretals, as they appeared, for information and the determination of doubtful points.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various