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.
Under the supervision of Alva it founded professorships of catechetics and substituted the decrees of the Council of Trent for the Decretum of Gratian in the law school.
From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved
The earliest university text-book in Canon Law—the "Decretum" of Gratian—adopted this method, with some modifications.
From Readings in the History of Education Mediaeval Universities by Norton, Arthur Orlo
Cong. generale Decretum confirmavit, et ubique exequutioni dandum esse praecepit.
From Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, May 1865 by
They are mainly citations of other passages in the Decretum itself.
From Readings in the History of Education Mediaeval Universities by Norton, Arthur Orlo
