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Canonist
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CANONIST. One well versed in canon or ecclesiastical law.


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A full accounting, no doubt, would acknowledge a distinctive Western intellectual tradition, extending from Aristotle and the Stoics through the medieval canonists to their impact on English common law.
Some canonists argued on the pope's authority as "vicar of Christ," because the pope, being something more than a man, can put asunder a marriage
Canning traces the debates about the relationship between a corporate entity and its members to the Roman canonists like Pope Innocent IV in 1250.
 
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