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decretum

NOUN
canon
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precept tenet
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assize catalogue command commandment criterion declaration decree dictate doctrine dogma formula law list maxim order ordinance principle regulation roll screed standard statute table touchstone yardstick
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disorganization lawlessness unbelief
NOUN
decree
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act announcement directive edict injunction instruction judgment law order proclamation regulation rule ruling statute
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behest bidding charge charging command commandment declaration dictum direction enactment ordinance precept prescript promulgation pronouncement rap say ukase
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the riot act the word
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answer disorganization lawlessness
NOUN
edict
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commandment decree directive injunction judgment mandate precept proclamation regulation ruling statute
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act canon command dictate dictum enactment fiat instrument law manifesto ordinance prescript pronunciamento rule ukase writ
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request
NOUN
institute
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convention decree doctrine dogma edict establishment fixture habit maxim ordinance practice precedent precept prescript principle regulation rite ritual rule statute tenet tradition
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unbelief
NOUN
law
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act case charge charter code constitution decision decree legislation mandate measure order precedent regulation requirement ruling statute
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assize behest bidding bylaw canon caveat command commandment covenant demand dictate divestiture edict enactment equity garnishment injunction institute instruction jurisprudence notice ordinance precept prescript prescription subpoena summons warrant writ
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due process reg
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disorganization lawlessness
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transgression
NOUN
precept
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axiom canon commandment doctrine dogma edict tenet
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behest bidding byword command decree direction formula fundamental guideline injunction instruction law mandate maxim motto order ordinance prescript principle regulation rule saying statute
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ambiguity unbelief
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answer disorganization lawlessness
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regulation
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code decree law order principle procedure statute
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Bible book canon commandment dictate direction edict numbers ordinance precept prescript
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chapter and verse no-no's reg standing order
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lawlessness
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deregulation disorganization mismanagement
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statute
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act bill decree edict measure regulation
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assize canon enactment ordinance precept

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Passing over the first Additiones to the Decretum and the “Quinque compilationes.”

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

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

The following is the answer: Decretum: Plurium Dioeceseum.

From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, November 1864 by

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

Cong. generale Decretum confirmavit, et ubique exequutioni dandum esse praecepit.

From Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, May 1865 by