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The papal bull decreed that the new book of law was to go into effect on whitsunday may the nineteenth 1918 the period of time allowed before a new law after its official promulgation goes into force is known in the terminology of canon law as the vacatio legis canonists have generally held that for all laws. Canon law deals with all the issues that any legal system does for example rights property issues procedures administration personnel crimes and trials it also does some things that civil law cannot such as laws regarding sacraments sacred places and magisterial teachings. Canon law canon law history the early church was not organized in any centralized structure over a long period of time there developed patriarchates churches believed to have been founded by apostles and bishoprics the leaders of which either as monarchical bishops or as bishops with shared authority ie collegiality issued decrees and regulatory provisions for the clergy and . In other words it is a system of rules of a particular society2 according to thomas aquinas law is a specific ordinance of reason meant to promote common good and promulgated by one who has the responsibility for the commminity3 therefore the code of canon law is a book containing the universal and fundamental laws of the roman catholic church