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Sextus Decretalium

Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The sixth decretal.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Lat. The sixth (book) of the decretals; the sext, or sixth decretal. So called because appended, in the bsdy of the canon law, to the five books of the decretals of Gregory IX.; it consists of a collection of supplementary decretals, and was published A. D. 1298. Buth Hor. Jur. 172; 1 Bl. Comm. 82.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

I. The sixth of the decretals, — one of the subdivisions of the canon law.