Canonists

I've read his Contraception: A History of Its Treatment by the Catholic Theologians and Canonists (1968), Power to Dissolve: Lawyers and Marriages in the Courts of the Roman Curia (1972); and A Private Choice: Abortion in America in the Seventies (1979).

Former Laetare Medalist to deliver address at Notre Dame's commencement 2009

Pennington, Kenneth. [1993b] Popes, Canonists and Texts

Medieval Political Philosophy Kilcullen, John 2006

The Canonists, however, -- preposterous and infatuated as they are, -- rashly laying hold of the expressions of Jerome, have determined that it is a prodigious sacrilege to sell sepulchres.

Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

So that the Canonists played the madmen with some reason, when they allowed the space, from the rising of the morning to the third hour of the day, for the phylacterical prayers; because those three-hour praying men scarcely despatched them within less space, pausing one hour before they began prayer, and as much after they were ended.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

Canonists and legalists, aware of this fact, had tried to determine the situations and conditions under which the ratio publicae utilitatis or the ratio status (“reason of state”) — to use some of their terms — allowed violations of the common law or the moral code.

MACHIAVELLISM FELIX GILBERT 1968

Canonists declared that the pope was the true emperor, that the Holy Roman Church was

Dictionary of the History of Ideas GAINES POST 1968

Canonists and theologians accepted without hesitation the justification of trade formulated by

An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching George O'Brien

There are in each Inquisition twelve Counsellors, viz: four Divines, four Canonists, and four Civilians.

Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal Sarah J. Richardson

A college at Paris was organised in accordance with Faculty divisions, an arrangement so little in harmony with the ideas of English founders, that William of Wykeham provided that Canonists and Civilists, should be mixed in chambers with students of other Faculties "ad nutriendam et conservandam majorem dilectionem, amicitiam et charitatem inter eosdem."

Life in the Medieval University Robert S. Rait

A commission sent to Rome to ascertain the meaning of certain provisions contained in the contract resulted in several folio volumes, embodying "the conflicting opinions of the most eminent Roman lawyers," supported by references to the Canonists, the decisions of the "Sacred Rota," the great text-writers upon jurisprudence, the Institutes and Pandects, and ascending still higher to the laws of the Roman Republic and the Augustan era.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various