Canon religiosorum
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
In ecclesiastical records. A book wherein the religious of every greater convent had a fair transcript of the rules of their order, frequentlv read among hem as their iocal statutes. Kennett, Gloss.; fowell.
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A system or aggregation of correlated ules, whether of statutory origin or other-vise, relating to and governing a particuiar lepartment of legal science or a particular )ranch of the substantive law. -Canons of construction. The system of undamental rules and maxims which are rec-gnized as governing the construction or inter-iretation of written instruments.