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  1. A collection of papal decrees. The best known
  2. is that collected by Gratian (died 1159) in
  3. about 1140, comprising some 4,000 items. The
  4. decretum was used as an authoritative source
  5. of canon law (the rules and regulations of
  6. the church).
  7.