decretum

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The collection was afterwards increased, and in the middle of the twelfth century engrafted into Gratian's Decretum, on which is based the Canon Law of the Roman Church.

From To My Younger Brethren Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work by Moule, H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn)

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

Considered from the point of view of official authority, the Decretum occupies an intermediate position very difficult to define.

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

All that was required was a copy of the text-book,—Gratian's Decretum, the Sentences, a treatise of Aristotle, or a medical book.

From An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by Robinson, James Harvey

Decretum Universitatis Parisiensis super gorgiasitate muliercularum ad placitum.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 by Motteux, Peter Anthony