Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Concordia discordantium canonum

. [Latin "the harmony of the discordant canons"] Hist. A collection of ecclesiastical authorities compiled by Gratian, an Italian monk, ca. 1140. 0 Gratian analyzed questions of law by drawing conclusions from side-by-side comparisons of a variety of texts. Later canonist scholarship usu. proceeded from Gratian's work. -Also termed Decretum Gratiani; Decretum.