King Henry stung with the dilatory pleas of the canonists at Rome in point of his marriage, did in revenge destroy their whole hive throughout his own universities," Fuller.
This is why we find in them hardly any documents earlier than the time of Gratian, and also why canonists have continued to refer to the decretals of Gregory IX.
Thus was closed, as the canonists say, the Corpus juris canonici; but this expression, which is familiar to us nowadays, is only a bibliographical term.
That which is favoured bycanonists is Richter's edition (Leipzig, 1863), in which each chapter de reformatione is followed by a selection of decisions of the S.
Canonists obtained the recent texts as they could.
The abstract law was to be found rather in the Summae of the canonists than in the decretals.
The Irish collection,[13] though it introduced no important documents into the law of the Western Church, at least set canonists the example of quoting passages from the Scriptures and the writings of the Fathers.
Among the great number of Italian canonists who supported the theory, two deserve especial mention, as affording a contrast to the practical manner in which the commercial Italians met the question.
In the sixteenth century, very famous among canonists was the learned Benedictine, Vilagut.
The canonists have interpreted the text of Sixtus V.
There is always doubt that the spermatozoa are present if the microscope is not used, and these canonistsall disclaim the use of the microscope in such circumstances.
The canonists who hold that the vasectomized man is impotent interpret the words of Sixtus V.
Footnote 302: The Canonists seem to have made some distinction between the first and the second of these sentences.
He brought with him a printed paper, entitled Desideria patribus Concilii oecumenici proponenda, in which he adopted the ideas of the divines and canonists who are the teachers of his Bohemian clergy.
Edward to be on friendly terms; but it was more difficult to feel any cordiality for the dogmatic canonists or the furious Guelfic partisans who too often occupied the chair of St. Peter.
Trained civilians and canonists also attended, while abbeys and churches contributed extracts from chronicles, carefully compiled by royal order, with a view of illustrating the king's claims.
Roman Catholic canonists now confine the right to vote at oecumenical councils to bishops, cardinal deacons, generals or vicars general of monastic orders and the praelati nullius (exempt abbots, &c.
The clause inserted by the canonists was a mere legal fiction, which did not change matters a particle.
We will now ask how the theologians and canonists interpreted this legislation, and how the tribunals of the Inquisition enforced it.
As a matter of course, the canonists and the theologians approved the severest penalties inflicted by the Inquisition.
The theologians and the canonists put the finishing touches to the situation.
It is evident that the theologians and canonists were simply apologists for the Inquisition, and interpreters of its laws.
The canonistswent farther than this, as Esmein declares, and "in a way set a snare for human nature to beguile the imprudent into the matrimonial state" through the theory of "presumptive marriage.
The theories adopted and developed by the canonists favor the forming of marriages.
The canonists themselves having made marriages all too easy, and valid marriages all too difficult, had been driven into a doctrine of possessory marriage.
But he rejects the doctrine of the Fathers and canonists that marriage is a "remedy.
By the canonists the age of consent to marriage was fixed at seven years.
Theologians and canonistsdeclare that without complete freedom the decisions of a council are not binding, and the assembly is only a pseudo-synod.
He was president of one of the preparatory committees of theologians and canonistsfor the council, and it is thought that his excessive labors as such contributed not a little to break his health down.
Azpilcueta, known also as Doctor Navarro, was one of the leading canonists of the time and a man of the highest reputation.
Theologians and canonists persevered in its condemnation.
He answers in it Albericus Gentilis, Barclay and others who had contended for passive obedience, not failing to draw support from the canonists and civilians whom he quotes.
Gaul), of the group of canonists who supported the pretensions of Pope Gregory VII.
The judges and all the canonists were quite clear that the Pope’s right to make a Sanctuary had never been allowed in England, and that every such privilege must come from the king.
The Pope's prohibition not having been issued in England, his own Bishops, the Universities, and the canonists had declared themselves in favour of the divorce.
At the time it was uncertain whether the dispensing power extended so far as to sanction such a union, and when the discussion rose upon it the Roman canonists were themselves divided.
Many canonists interpret this law as meaning that even when the unjust fear is not employed as a means to force one into taking the vow, but does in reality cause one to take the vow, the promise is null in both forums in virtue of Canon Law.
The legal axioms used bycanonists apply to the external forum, and cannot be used equally in the forum of conscience.
Some canonists hold that engagements are not valid before the age of puberty, on account of the lack of sufficient discretion.
The works of the Fathers of the Church, and the Scholastics and Canonists were well represented.
Jurists and canonists might amuse themselves with debating it theoretically; practically it had become the veriest commonplace of the courts, both secular and ecclesiastical.
Bishop Andreas further urged that the council condemn by an irrefragable decision the impious doctrine of some canonists that the pope cannot commit simony.
In that case the canonists declared that the issue should not suffer.
Their writings, indeed, reveal not a little of the casuistry and self-deception which so often vitiate the reasoning of the canonists and their predecessors.
He had no sympathy with the new curialist ideas of papal inerrancy and infallibility, nor with the repeated assertions of Italian canonists that the Pope was superior to all ecclesiastical law.
It was Henry himself who clung strenuously to the conception of papal supremacy, and who advocated it in a manner only done hitherto by canonists of the Roman Curia.
The Spanish, French, and German Bishops were strongly opposed to that doctrine of papal supremacy which had been assiduously taught by the canonists of the Roman Curia for at least two centuries, and which was called curialism.
The term "common law" was being taken over from the canonists by English lawyers, who used it to distinguish the general law of the land from local customs, royal prerogatives, and in short from all that was exceptional or special.
Even the canonists were content to read the books of French and Italian masters, though John Acton (c.
That is still the defect of the marriage system we have inherited from the Church, but in the hands of the Canonists it was emphasized both on the side of its facility for entrance and of its difficulty for exit.
The Canonists attributed a truly immense importance to the copula carnalis, as they technically termed it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "canonists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
