Book I: General Norms (cc. 1- 203) Flashcards
What is a law?
A general and abstract written norm by which the legislator provides for the common good of a community entrusted to his care.
Custom
An unwritten, normative practice that derives from the community over time which may be granted the force of law.
Canonical Legislators
- Supreme Pontiff
- Episcopal Conferences
- Diocesan Bishops
- Supreme Moderators
Dispensation
A relaxation of merely ecclesiastical laws in a particular case.
Faculty
The legal authorization to exercise the power of orders or sacred power, or to act in the name of the Church.
General Decree
An act of legislative power issued as law to a community capable of receiving law by a competent administrator.
General Executory Decree
An act of executive power by which a competent administrator determines the methods of applying a law to which that community is bound. (Looks like legislation).
Canonical Instruction
An administrative act of executive power issued by a competent administrator to those responsible for executing laws that determines the methods of fulfilling the law and elaborates its prescripts.
Singular Administrative Acts
Unilateral, juridic acts of executive power that creates, modifies, or extinguishes a particular situation.
Consanguinity
Genetic descent from a common anscestor.
Affinity
Relationship by valid marriage to a spouse’s family.
Juridic Person
An artificial person distinct from the persons and things that serves as its basis in reality,
Established by ecclesiastical authority for an apostolic purpose,
With the capacity for continuous existence with its own rights and obligations at Canon Law
accountable to Canon Law.
Juridic Act
An externally manifest, positive act of the will made according to proper form by which a certain effect is intended, placed by a person qualified to place such an act.
Power of Governance
The divinely instituted authority of the Church to govern its own affairs.
Power of Orders
Sacred power that derives from the sacrament of Orders
