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)
Among all these the Decretum of Gratian was the great innovation which first marked out Canon Law as a distinct field of learning, separate from both Theology and Roman Law.
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
And with regard to the more frequent holding of Councils, he is said to have reminded the Fathers of the Decretum Perpetuum of Constance, that a Council should be assembled every ten years.
From Letters From Rome on the Council by D?llinger, Johann Joseph Ignaz von
Cong. generale Decretum confirmavit, et ubique exequutioni dandum esse praecepit.
From Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, May 1865 by
