### Clue: Read about a Northern city beginning to waive church rules (5,3)
### Answer: CANON LAW 
 ### Explanation: Definition: church rules
  CON(to read,to study attentively) **containing**(about) [A + N(abbrev. for northern)] + LA(abbrev. for the city of Los Angels, USA) + W{initial letter of(beginning to) "waive"}.