| 单词 | common law of the church |
| 释义 | > as lemmascommon law of the church b. Chiefly Roman Catholic Church. More fully common law of the church. The general laws, rules, or customs of the church, as opposed to local constitutions, papal privileges, etc. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > [noun] common law?c1430 church government1566 kirk government1608 ?c1430 (?1383) J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) III. 289 Þerfore seide Seynt Gregory and þe comyn lawe of þe Chirche, þat honour or prelacie schulde not be ȝoven to hem þat seken and coveiten it. 1438 in A. T. Bannister Reg. Thome Spofford (1919) 223 We [Bishop] visitynge you thurgh our authoritee ordinary and the form of the commyn law. 1630 J. Floyd Apol. Holy Sea Apostolicks viii. 227 Wee must intreate..of the Church for this tyme to resigne all power of externall iurisdiction, for parish Priests haue no power in that kind, so much as by the common law of the Church, much lesse by deuine institution. 1767 R. Burn Eccl. Law (ed. 2) III. 29 The observation of this canon..(or rather of the common law of the church of which this canon is only an affirmance) was specially inforced upon the bishops. 1882 S. B. Smith Elemts Eccl. Law II. iii. 43 By the common law of the Church, the parish priest..is vested with the administration of the rights and property of his parish. 2004 Toronto Star (Nexis) 28 Aug. l10 Indult, a legal term, means a special permission from the Pope to practise something other than the common law of the church. < as lemmas |
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