Canon Law

That of the Eastern Church was codified 883 (see Beveridge's Pandectæ, 1672-82); that of the Western Church was systematized between 1150 and 1600 (see Freidberg & Richter's Corpus Juris Canonic i, 1879). It is the common law of both the Catholic and the Protestant Churches of Germany; it is the basis of the law of the Ch. of England, and is one of the sources of the common law of England, and of that of Scotland. See Elements of Canon Law, Reichel, 1889.