canon law
ecclesiastical law

A rigorist for ecclesiastical law would have found much to object to in this procedure.

Next followed a collection of ecclesiastical laws, 1720 (new ed.

He graduated in ecclesiastical law at the early age of 21 and began to practice.

It continued with a discussion of how "crime against nature" statues date to 12th-century ecclesiastical laws.

These rules have now given way to modern legislation and Catholics, in civil life, are no longer governed by ecclesiastical law.

She has held various public offices, particularly in ecclesiastical law.

For back in those times corpses came under the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical rather than civil law.

During his life, he wrote over forty treatises on ecclesiastical law.

As a result of ecclesiastical law, the church separates itself from the people it is supposed to serve.

Monogamy was enforced both by the civil and ecclesiastical law.