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Dictionaries, Encyclopedia, and Standard Reference Works on Canon Law
Canon law has many specialized concepts and vocabulary that are not always self-evident to those untrained in canonistics. Over the last several hundred years, and particularly during the 20th century, a variety of canonical dictionaries, encyclopedia, and reference works have been produced in an effort to unify and explain these special matters. Although, with one exception, none of these works is authoritative per se (only Communicationes is produced by ecclesiastical authority, and even it has not been designated as a site for the promulgation of law per 1983 CIC 8 § 1), their use greatly facilitates accurate canonical research.
The works below are grouped into broad chronological sets; that does not mean, however, that materials listed in one group are of little or no value to researchers with interests in other periods. Canon law, like other legal systems , builds on what came before, even as it reshapes what it inherited. In short, older works retain a relatively high degree of usefulness even after the law that they were developed to explain has evolved into later forms or passed from use.
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1983 Code |
X. Ochoa, ed., Leges Ecclesiae post Codicem iuris canonici editae, (Commentarium pro religiosis, 1987-2010) vols. VI - X. =
Canon Law Digest, vols. XI - XII (Canon Law Society of America). Cite volume and page only; the year of publication is worse than irrelevant—it is confusing when tracking documents published in many different years.
J. Otaduy, et al, eds.,
Diccionario General de Derecho Canónico,
(Universidad de Navarra / Aranzada, 2012) in 7 vols.
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Notes: 2500+ entries.
C. Corral, et al., eds., Nuovo Dizionario di Diritto Canonico (Pont. Univ. Comillas, 1993) = pp.
Patricia Dugan (American laywoman, =) & Paul
Gagaro (Scottish priest, =), A Simple
Dictionary of Canon Law [2012], (CanonLawBooks, 2° ed., 2014) 107 pp.
Luigi Chiapetta (Italian priest, =),
Prontuario di Diritto Canonico e
Concordatario, (Dehoniane, 1994) 1487 pp.
Pérez de Heredia y Valle & J. Llaquet, eds.,
Diccionario Enciclopédico de Derecho
Canónico, (Herder, 2008) 957 pp., R. Bernet trans. of S. Haering & H.
Schmitz, eds., Lexicon des Kirchenrechts 2001.
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1917 Code
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P. Gasparri & J. Serédi, eds., Codicis Iuris Canonici Fontes, in 9 vols., (Typis Polyglottis Vaticanis, 1923-1949). For an orientation to using Pio-Benedictine footnotes, go here.
X. Ochoa, ed., Leges Ecclesiae post Codicem iuris canonici editae, (Commentarium pro religiosis, 1966-1987) vols. I - VI.
Patrick Lydon (American priest, 1883-1969), Ready Answers in Canon Law [1934], (Benziger, 3° ed., 1948) 523 pp. ▪ Review: T. Martin, Jurist 9 (1949) 354-356.
Marius Pistocchi (1874-1943), Lexicon Juridico-Canonicum (Berruti, 1934) 169 pp.
P. Trudel (Sulpician, =), A Dictionary of Canon Law (Herder, 1919) 242 pp.
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Decretal Law
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Ethelred Taunton (English priest, 1857-1907), The Law of the Church: A Cyclopaedia of Canon Law for English-Speaking Countries (Herder, 1906) 652 pp. Notes: Taunton's Cyclopaedia is available here.
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