- DECRETALS, THE
- a collection of laws added to the canon law of the Church of Rome, being judicial replies of the Popes to cases submitted to them from time to time for adjudication.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
DECRETALS, THE
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