Decretum
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat. In the canon law. An ecclesiastical law, in contradistinction to a secular law, (lex.) 1 Mackeld.
Civ, Law, 81, § 93, Kaufmann's note.
The title of the first of the two great divisions of the Corpus Juris Canonici; more commonly known as Decrstum Chratiani, (q. V.)