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===Family law===
Family concerns the description and delineation of the institution of the family and relationship between its participants. At its core it consists of the marital unit and its offspring and aims to look at the expectations and rights that individuals in such units possess.
==Adjudication of Canon law
Magisters have the power to arbitrate disputes over matters arising from Paxist Canon law. In Packilvania, only Magisters who have been appointed to a court of the [[judiciary of Packilvania]] can actually administer justice and adjudicate disputes arising from and governed by Paxist Canon law. Although Packilvania is a Paxist theocracy there is a distinction between secular law and Canon law as such a parallel legal system exists for religious law. This court system consists of the following courts.
===Religious Courts===
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The Religious Appeals Courts are headed by a Judge President and consists of Judges appointed by the [[Sultan of Packilvania]]. The Judicial Appointments Commission is responsible for making the non-binding recommendations for candidates to these posts. Although the Sultan almost always picks from their nominations and heads their recommendations, he is not obligated to follow their advice. Judges for the Religious Appeals Courts are typically judges who have served in Religious Courts for 8 years or worked as an advocate of the Religious Appeals Court for 15 years without any disciplinary action against them.
===Outside of Packilvania===
Outside of Packilvania or any other country in which Paxism is not the state religion, matters arising from or related to Paxist Canon law are processed through the [[Magisterium of Paxism]] itself. Thus a person can bring a dispute to a Magister and appeal it to a Senior Magister then to a High Magister then Great Magister then the [[Supreme Magister]] and/or the Council of Great Magisters depending on the nature of the issue. Rulings from a higher Magister supercede and overturn rulings made by lower Magisters. Within a jurisdiction, the principle of precedent is followed whereby disputes with similar facts are judged in similar ways as far as the legal and canonical circumstances under which they were litigated are consistent.
==Enforcement of Canon Law==
The enforcement of canon law relates to the relationship between the letter of the law created and the efforts exerted to bring it to fruition in the physical world and the institutions created to support that process.
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