canonist

"I leaned on the advice of canonists for that," he said.

It is principally as a canonist that he achieved fame.

This did not satisfy the civilian jurists, still less the canonists.

Theologians and canonists in dealing with this subject usually have two historical texts as basis.

It appeared in 1765 and shows him at his best as a theologian and canonist.

By the mid-twelfth century this had changed: the great canonists now learned their business in Italy.

The teachings of the canonists directly contradict it too.

Consequently, canonists traditionally called the clause the "mother of repose".

By canonists, a college has been defined as a collection of several rational bodies forming one representative body.

For these reasons theologians and canonists commonly held that the main provisions of the Bull were still in force.

He studied law at Orléans and became a well-known canonist.

During his career, he distinguished himself as a brilliant canonist rather than as a theologian.

Another issue for many canonists is the penalty of removing every priest offender permanently from ministry.

The general tolerance of prostitution was for the most part reluctant, and many canonists urged prostitutes to reform.

Numerous ecumenists lauded the initiative, while some theologians and canonists were critical.

According to canonists, this remains the obligatory amount of the tax, unless custom establishes a different sum.

In his writings, he often cited earlier canonists or theologians as well as contemporary writers.

The theologians, however, never bought the canonists' idea that a bishop's administrative functions made him superior to a priest.

This explains the favour they enjoyed among canonists.

Indeed, medieval canonists treated privileges and dispensations as distinct, though related, aspects of the law.

He served as a canonist of the Apostolic Penitentiary.

Apostolic visitors are church officials whom canonists commonly class with papal legates.

Thus, there are canonists who define university as a collection of bodies distinct from one another, but employing the same name specially conferred upon them.

Unlike most German canonists of his time, he laid great stress on the sources and historical development of canon law.

And he turned so sharply on the Bishop, that the poor canonist nearly dropped from his horse in surprise and terror.