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Decretum

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/ dɪˈkriːtəm /

noun

  1. RC Church the name given to various collections of canon law, esp that made by the monk Gratian in the 12th century, which forms the first part of the Corpus Juris Canonici

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Considered from the point of view of official authority, the Decretum occupies an intermediate position very difficult to define.

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

This he issued in textbook form, about 1142, under the title of Decretum Gratiani.

From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson

The following is the answer: Decretum: Plurium Dioeceseum.

From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, November 1864 by

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

The Decretum has thus remained a work of private authority, and the texts embodied in it have only that legal value which they possess in themselves.

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