Note 1057 — Chapter VIII · RISE OF ECCLESIASTICAL MARRIAGE: THE CHURCH DEVELOPS AND ADMINISTERS MATRIMONIAL LAW

Pollock and Maitland, Hist. of Eng. Law, II, 365. The Concordia discordantium canonum, or Decree of Gratian, comprises the first volume of Richter and Friedberg's fine edition of the Corpus juris canonici (Leipzig, 1879). The bringing together of the scattered rules of the ecclesiastical authorities by Ivo of Chartres in the reign of Henry I., and especially by Gratian (1151), was of vast importance in building up the ecclesiastical jurisdiction. On the history of the canon law see Stubbs, Lectures, 292-333; idem, Const. Hist., I, 308 ff.; Dodd, Hist. Canon Law, 150 ff., 161 ff.; Blackstone, Commentaries, I, 14, 15, 19; Esmein, Le mariage en droit canonique, I, 3 ff., 56 ff., 108 ff. The best account of the rise and jurisdiction of ecclesiastical courts in England will be found in Makower, Const. Hist. of Eng. Church, 384-464.