Church legal language

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The ecclesiastical legal language of the Roman Catholic Church is a branch of canon law . It deals with the meaning of individual terms used in canon law, which does not have to correspond either to the everyday use of the respective terms or to their reception in other legal systems.

The Codex iuris canonici itself determines the interpretation and interpretation of canon law provisions in Can. 17:

Leges ecclesiasticae intellegendae sunt secundum propriam verborum significationem in textu et contextu consideratam; quae si dubia et obscura manserit, ad locos parallelos, si qui sint, ad legis finem ac circumstantias et ad mentem legislatoris est recurrendum. ("Church laws are to be understood according to their own word meaning carefully considered in the text and in the context; if this remains doubtful and obscure, recourse is to be made to parallel passages, if there are any, to the purpose and circumstances of the law and to the intention of the legislature." )

literature

  • Klaus Mörsdorf : The legal language of the Codex iuris canonici. A critical investigation (= Görres Society for the Care of Science in Catholic Germany. Publications of the Section for Law and Political Science. 74, ISSN  0434-1376 ). Unchanged reprint of the 1937 edition. Schöningh, Paderborn 1967.