Chapter — 1917 Code of Canon Law
Chapter II: Of Compromise into Arbitrators
Superseded as law in 1983 — read why this Code still matters. Each canon links to its 1983 counterpart.
To avoid judicial contentions, the parties can also enter into a convention by which the controversy is committed to the judgment of one or several who, according to the norm of law, settle the question, or treat and transact the business from what is good and equitable; the former are called by the proper name arbiters, the latter arbitrators.
Ad evitandas iudiciales contentiones, partes possunt quoque inire conventionem, qua controversia committatur iudicio unius vel plurium qui ad normam iuris quaestionem dirimant, vel de bono et aequo negotium pertractent et transigant; illi arbitri, isti arbitratores proprio nomine appellantur.
1983 Code correlation: can. 1713
1983 Code correlation: can. 1714-15
Lay persons in ecclesiastical causes, excommunicated persons, and infamous persons after a declaratory or condemnatory sentence are prohibited from validly discharging the office of arbiter; religious, however, are not to undertake the office of arbiter without permission of the Superior.
Prohibentur ab arbitri munere valide gerendo laici in causis ecclesiasticis, excommunicati et infames post sententiam declaratoriam vel condemnatoriam; religiosi vero munus arbitri ne suscipiant sine venia Superioris.
If the parties do not wish to consent either to transaction or to compromise into arbiters or arbitrators, the controversy will have to be settled through a formal trial according to the norm of the First Section.
Si nec in transactionem nec in compromissum in arbitros vel arbitratores partes consentire velint, controversia dirimenda erit per formale iudicium ad normam Sectionis Primae.