TY - JOUR
AU - Rodes, Robert E.
AB - THE CANON LAW AS A LEGAL SYSTEM- FUNCTION, OBLIGATION, AND SANCTION* By Robert E. Rodes, Jr. TH E SCHOLARS and prelates who accomplished the vast intellectual articula- tion of the canon law during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries brought to their task a highly developed set of value commitments but only a meager supply of administrative resources. This unique combination of constituent elements gives the system they produced — in addition to its intrinsic historical interest — a special claim to the attention of students of legal theory. In this essay, I shall attempt to give some account of the basic character and typical problem-solving techniques of this system, in the hope of shedding some light both on certain aspects of the history of the medieval Church and on cer- tain perennial problems of legal theory. For this purpose, I have tried to consider afresh the appropriate cate- gories of analysis for dealing with the system. Consequently, I have dealt as much as possible with the raw data of legislative and administrative practice in isolation from the analytical framework with which the system was approached by its own proponents. It is possible that a fuller treatment of the subject 
TI - The Canon Law as a Legal System – Functions, Obligation, and Sanction*
JF - American Journal of Jurisprudence
DO - 10.1093/ajj/9.1.45
DA - 1964-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-canon-law-as-a-legal-system-functions-obligation-and-sanction-3MLhSLgc0G
SP - 45
EP - 94
VL - 9
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -