Saldanha, ILR 54 Bom 288: AIR 1930 Bom 105, it was held, that personal law for Roman Catholics is the Canon Law of Church ... law. That for the purpose of deciding the validity of the marriage, would be the law of the Roman Catholic Church, namely the Canon Law
clear terms, that "in the absence of statutory law Canon Law governs members of the community". A Division Bench of this. Court ... personal law sunds clipped to the extent statutory law has stepped.
19. Nonetheless there is some relevance for personal law or Canon Law even
looked at from two standpoints viz, the law of the land and the Canon Law. Both will generally coincide but not necessarily so. In such ... law of the land or make the offspring illegitimate in the eye of the law of the land. But even Canon Law has got important
law makes elaborate rules for the administration of the properties held by the Prefecture Apostolic and that any law made contrary to canon law would ... distinction existing between Mahommedan and Hindu laws on the one hand and canon law on the other. It was pointed out that whereas
law. That, for the purpose
of deciding the validity of the marriage would be the law of
the Roman Catholic Church, namely, the Canon Law ... law. That, for the purpose
of deciding the validity of the marriage, would be the law
of the Roman Catholic Church,namely, the Canon law
Hindu Law, 9th edn., Sections 48-50). The personal law applicable to Roman Catholics in India is the canon law of the Church of Koine ... Canon law. The book referred to purports to contain all the canons relating to marriage included in a Code of Canon Law, which, I understand
world over are governed by the Canon Law, which is their personal law, that this law provides for the appointment of ecclesiastical officers and also ... suggested that the Canon Law is a document of this kind. Indeed the argument is that the Canon Law can be altered at any time
concept of a born Christian, is alien to Law. Under the Canon Law, one is inducted into Christianity by baptism, the first Sacrament. The expression ... Catholic Church, namely the Canon Law of that Church."
13. Thus, in the absence of statutory law, Canon Law governs members of the Syrian
this case consider the Canon Law of the Roman Church and apply it. He contends that the Canon Law which declares this marriage "gravely ... presents no difficulty to the Canon lawyer. Again, in this case, if I had to follow the Canon law, both parties having been baptized
sacred canons' or the
'canonical order'. The term ecclesiastical law is used synonymously with
canon law, although at times ecclesiastical law also ... Chambers Dictionary, Osborn' Concise Law Dictionary,
Dictionary of Law by L.B.Curzon Barrister, The Code of Canon Law and A
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