Was communion on the tongue ever canon law?

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**In reading an online document at the Vatican’s website, Redemptionis Sacramentum, CH. 4 on Holy Communion:
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vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/ccdds/documents/rc_con_ccdds_doc_20040423_redemptionis-sacramentum_en.html#Chapter IV

It reads as if it is our lawful right to receive this way, as a norm:
  1. Although each of the faithful always has the right to receive Holy Communion on the tongue, at his choice…
And that if a person wishes to receive in the hand, in those places where the Bishops have given that permission, they can.

Was that last part a change in canon law? An indult?
 
It was not a part of the 1917 Code of Canon Law. It was the ancient universal custom of the Latin Church. Universal customs are considered to attain the force of law after a certain amount of time (currently 30 years).
Communion on the tongue as a universal and ancient custom that had attained the force of law and therefore an indult was required to receive communion in a different manner.
 
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