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Canon Law 2 - KIUS010
Title: Kanonické právo 2
Guaranteed by: Department of Philosophy and Law (26-KFP)
Faculty: Catholic Theological Faculty
Actual: from 2023
Semester: winter
E-Credits: 3
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:3/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
Guarantor: ICLic. PaedDr. Mgr. Marián Čačík, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): ICLic. PaedDr. Mgr. Marián Čačík, Ph.D.
Co-requisite : KIUS009
Annotation -
The course introduces the current law of the Catholic Church and the main code of the Latin Rite Church (Code of Canon Law). It includes sacramental law, temporal goods, penal law and procedural law.
Last update: Čačík Marián, ICLic. PaedDr. Mgr., Ph.D. (17.10.2022)
Aim of the course -
Introduction to Canon law.
Last update: Čačík Marián, ICLic. PaedDr. Mgr., Ph.D. (17.10.2022)
Course completion requirements -
Passing the exam.
Last update: Čačík Marián, ICLic. PaedDr. Mgr., Ph.D. (17.10.2022)
Literature -

a)      Primary literature:

  • HRDINA Antonín, Kanonické právo; dějiny pramenů, teorie, platné právo, Plzeň: nakl. A. Čeněk, 2011
  • PŘIBYL Stanislav, Kanonické manželské právo, Vyšší Brod: Hesperion, 2021
  • Kodex kanonického práva. Úřední znění textu a překlad do češtiny, Praha: ZVON, 1994

b)      Extension literature: 

  • HRDINA Antonín, Prameny ke studiu kanonického práva, Plzeň: nakl. A. Čeněk, 2007
  • TRETERA Jiří Rajmund, HORÁK Záboj, Církevní právo, Praha: Leges, 2021
  • BIANCHI Paolo, When is Marriage Null?, San Francisco: Ignatius, 2015
  • VITALI Enrico, BERLINGO Salvatore, Il matrimonio canonico, Milano: Giuffre Editore, 2017
  • PIGHIN Bruno Fabio, Il nuovo sistema penale della Chiesa, Venezia: Marcianum Press, 2021
  • WOODALL, G. J., A Passion for Justice, Leominster: Gracewing, 2011
  • BAEL John B., CORIDEN James A., GREEN Thomas J., New Commentary on the Code of Canon Law, New York: Paulist Press, 2000
Last update: Čačík Marián, ICLic. PaedDr. Mgr., Ph.D. (09.10.2024)
Teaching methods -
Lecture, individual study.
Last update: Čačík Marián, ICLic. PaedDr. Mgr., Ph.D. (17.10.2022)
Requirements to the exam -
The exam is oral. Students answer questions given in the course syllabus and directly related questions.
Last update: Čačík Marián, ICLic. PaedDr. Mgr., Ph.D. (17.10.2022)
Syllabus -

1) Marriage: concept, natural orientation and essential characteristics; marriage contract
2) Preparation for marriage (canonical investigation); marriage announcements
3) Marriage pronouncements; invalidating marital impediments in genere and their classification; dispensations from marital impediments; casus perplexus
4) Marital impediments arising in the person of one of the betrotheds: insufficient age (impedimentum aetatis minoris), incapacity for coitus (impedimentum impotentiae coeundi), difference of religion (impedimentum disparitatis cultus)
5) Marital impediments from being bound by marriage (impedimentum ligaminis), by ordination (impedimentum sacri ordinis) and by religious vows (impedimentum voti religiosi)
6) Marital impediments from the crimes of kidnapping (impedimentum raptus) and killing the husband (impedimentum criminis)
7) Marital impediments from consanguinity (biological and legal), affinity and quasi-marital relationship (impedimentum consanguinitatis, cognationis legalis, affinitatis, publicae honestatis)
8) Marital consent and its legally relevant defects
9) Form of marriage; delegation and licence to marry
10) Mixed marriages; dispensation from the canonical form; secret marriage
11) Legal consequences of marriage
12) Separatio manente vinculo; procedure in administrative (or judicial) proceedings
13) Dissolution of marriage: death and declaration of death of the spouse; procedure in administrative proceedings
14) Dissolution of marriage: dispens super ratum et non consummatum; procedure in administrative proceedings
15) Privileges in favour of faith: privilegium Paulinum and favor fidei (Petrinum)
16) Validation of marriage: simple convalidation and sanction (concepts, differences, conditions of application)
17) Concept of property, possessions, ownership, co-ownership, possession, administration; ecclesiastical property (objectives and subjects)
18) Acquisition of property (titles of acquisition, sources, special regulation of prescription); beneficia proprie dicta
19) Administration of property (jurisdiction of administration, divided administration, ordinary and extraordinary administration, liability for excess, duties of the administrator of property)
20) Alienation and lease of ecclesiastical property
21) Pious wills and foundations (concept, types, reduction of obligations)
22) Principles of canonical criminal law; penal law and penal order
23) Criminal offence (concept and circumstances precluding illegality); reserves of the Apostolic See
24) The nature of the offence (concept and characteristics)
25) Forms of crime (developmental stages of crime, criminal complicity); extinction of criminality
26) Penalties (concept and classification)
27) Imposition of penalties (latae and ferendae sententiae), procedural form (judicial and administrative)
28) Concomitant offences (single and multiple offences) and their punishment
29) Mitigating and aggravating circumstances
30) Moderation powers of the judge (postponement of the imposition of sentence, waiver of punishment, imposition of a lighter sentence, suspended sentence); extinction of sentence
31) Punitive measures and penal penance
32) Offences against the faith and the unity of the Church
33) Offences against Church autorities and the exercise of duties

34) Offences against the sacraments
35) Offences against reputation and the offence of falsehood
36) Offences against special obligations
37) Offences against human life, dignity and freedom
38) Concept and classification of canonical proceedings (contentious/criminal/special, judicial/administrative); principles of canonical judicial proceedings
39) Jurisdiction of ecclesiastical courts
40) Degrees and types of ecclesiastical courts
41) Jurisdiction of ecclesiastical courts
42) Staff of the court: subjects of jurisdiction (judicial vicar, judges; single judge/senate); other functions (auditor, defender of justice, defender of the bond, notary)
43) Litigants (plaintiff and defendant), standing to be a party to the proceedings, standing to sue; procurators for litigation and advocates
44) Commencement of the proceedings (introductory phase of the proceedings): statement of claim and its particulars; summons of the defendant, litispendence and its consequences, litis-contestation
45) Evidentiary proceedings (instructive phase of the proceedings): concepts of evidence, proof, burden of proof, notoriety, principle of iura novit curia, oath; principle of free evaluation of evidence
46) Individual means of proof (statements of the parties, documentary evidence, examination of witnesses, expert opinion, inspection of the place or thing); legal presumptions
47) Interlocutory proceedings (concept of preliminary issue - causa incidens); publication of judicial acts; closure of the case
48) Hearing of the case (discussion phase of the trial): defences and objections
49) Decision on the merits (definitive phase of the proceedings): judgment and its elements, legal force of the judgment (res iudicata)
50) Appeals against the judgment - concept and types: ordinary (appeal) and extraordinary (application for restitution in integrum, or complaint in error)
51) Enforcement (execution) proceedings; time limit, compulsion (indirect and direct)
52) Oral contested proceedings (differences from ordinary contested proceedings)
53) Specifics of judicial proceedings in cases of annulment of marriage
54) Specifics of criminal proceedings
55) Canonical administrative proceedings; appeal against an administrative decision (hierarchical recourse)
56) Canonical administrative justice

Last update: Čačík Marián, ICLic. PaedDr. Mgr., Ph.D. (09.10.2024)
Entry requirements -
Basic knowledge of Catholic theology and Theory of law.
Last update: Čačík Marián, ICLic. PaedDr. Mgr., Ph.D. (17.10.2022)
 
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