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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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According to canon law , that should be done.
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As a body they upheld the interpretation of canon law as prohibiting women from this ceremony.
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Conditioned by church canon law , participation by clerics in politics was forbidden.
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Father Young helped scores of divorced Catholics find a comfortable corner in the Church, but he could not change canon law .
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His papal decrees were the foundation of canon law until their update in 1917.
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In rabbinic canon law , the rabbi explained, human life does not simply begin at conception.
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The science of the canon law had been born.
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Therefore church law must do it - that is, canon law .