CANON LAW STUDIES
NUMBER 49

EXCOMMUNICATION

ITS NATURE, HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT

AND EFFECTS

A DISSERTATION

Submitted to the Faculty of Canon Law of the
Catholic University of America in partial
fulfilment of the requirements for
the Degree of

DOCTOR OF CANON LAW

by

FRANCIS EDWARD HYLAND, J. C. L.
Priest of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia