Editing Judiciary (section)

===== Early Scholastics (1070–1234) =====
Canon law knows a few forms of laws: the ''canones'', decisions made by Councils, and the ''decreta'', decisions made by the Popes. The monk Gratian, one of the well-known [[decretist]]s, started to organise all of the church law, which is now known as the {{lang|la|[[Decretum Gratiani]]}}, or simply as ''Decretum''. It forms the first part of the collection of six legal texts, which together became known as the ''[[Corpus Juris Canonici]]''. It was used by [[canonist]]s of the [[Roman Catholic Church]] until Pentecost (19 May) 1918, when a revised ''[[1917 Code of Canon Law|Code of Canon Law]]'' (''Codex Iuris Canonici'') promulgated by [[Pope Benedict XV]] on 27 May 1917 obtained legal force.<ref>{{Citation |title=Benedict XV, Pope|doi = 10.1163/1877-5888_rpp_sim_01749}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Worlds of Medieval Europe|last=Backman|first=C.R.|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2014|pages=237–241}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=European legal history: a cultural and political perspective|last=Lesaffer, Randall|translator=Arriens, Jan |isbn=9780521877985|location=Cambridge, UK|pages=261–265|oclc=299718438|date=25 June 2009}}</ref>