Abstract
This monograph is focused on church law, which is the body of laws governing Christian religious communities, i.e., churches. It is created by the legislative authority of each church within its internal autonomy, independently of any other religious or secular community, i.e., independently of the state and other secular authorities.
The legal autonomy of religious communities is recognized and respected in the positive secular law of free democratic states, to which the Czech Republic belongs. Church and secular law together form a single complex of jurisprudence, and have created common legal maxims and juristic theory from the distant ages to today.