decretum

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Its single Greek work was a grammar; and if it could boast of a copy of the Institutes of Justinian, it did not yet possess a single book of civil law, not even Gratian's Decretum.

From Henry the Second by Green, Mrs. J. R.

Like the Decretum of Gratian, it is an illustration of the widespread influence of the Sic et Non.

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

They are mainly citations of other passages in the Decretum itself.

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

Gratian, character of the Decretum compiled by, ii.

From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Hallam, Henry

Though Gregory IX. wished to supersede the compilationes, he had no idea of superseding the Decretum of Gratian, still less of codifying the whole of the canon law.

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