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The elements of canon law

TABLE OF CONTENTS. Chapter Page I. — The Relation of Canon Law to other Branches of Law. 1. Divine Law 1 2. Human Law 2 3. Canon Law 8 II. — Division of the Subject. 1. Fourfold Division of the Subject 4 2. Canons Generally and Canon Law 4 3. General Government of the Church 4 4. Essentials of the Church's Maintenance and Holiness 4 5. Mediaeval and Modern Extensions of Church Organization 5 Part I. — Or Canons and Canon Law. Division I. — of Canons Generally, their Meaning, Sources, and Authority. III. — of Canons Generally. 1. The Term Canon defined 2. New Testament Use of the term 7 3. Modem Use of the term 7 IV. — The Church. 1. Definition of the Church 9 2. Objects of the Church 9 3. The Church an outward Society 10 V. — Constitution of the Church. 1. Unity 12 2. Holiness 18 3. Catholicity is 4. Apostolicity 14 VI. — The Church's Power of Making Canons. 1. The Church's Power of making Canons limited 16 2. By Legislative Authority 16 3. Power of Repealing Canons 17 VII. — The Sanction attaching to Canons. 1. Sanction of Conscience 18 2. Sanction of Spiritual Censure 18 3. Civil Sanction 19 VIII. — The Legislative Authority in the Church. The Collective Episcopate 1. Share of th

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