Corporations are dead entities and we are alive......Code of Canon Law. Code of Canon Law, Latin Codex Juris Canonici, official compilation of ecclesiastical law promulgated in 1917 and again, in revised form, in 1983, for Roman Catholics of the Latin rite. ... The new Code of Canon Law was a systematic arrangement of the ecclesiastical law then in force.

Catholic canon law as legal system. Roman canon law is a fully developed legal system, with all the necessary elements: courts, lawyers, judges, a fully articulatedlegal code principles of legal interpretation, and coercive penalties, though it lacks civilly-binding force in most secular jurisdictions.