Title — 1917 Code of Canon Law
Title XIX: Of Criminal Judgment
Superseded as law in 1983 — read why this Code still matters. Each canon links to its 1983 counterpart.
§ 1. Delicts which fall under criminal judgment are public delicts.
§ 2. Delicts to be punished by penal sanctions of which in can. 2168-2194 are excepted.
§ 3. In delicts of mixed forum Ordinaries regularly are not to proceed when the defendant is a lay person and the civil magistrate, taking action against the defendant, sufficiently consults the public good.
§ 4. Penance, a penal remedy, excommunication, suspension, and interdict, provided the delict is certain, can also be inflicted by way of precept outside judgment.
§ 1. Delicta quae cadunt sub criminali iudicio sunt delicta publica.
§ 2. Excipiuntur delicta plectenda sanctionibus poenalibus de quibus in can. 2168-2194.
§ 3. In delictis mixti fori Ordinarii regulariter ne procedant cum reus laicus est et civilis magistratus, in reum animadvertens, publico bono satis consulit.
§ 4. Poenitentia, remedium poenale, excommunicatio, suspensio, interdictum, dummodo delictum certum sit, infligi possunt etiam per modum praecepti extra iudicium.
Within this title
- Chapter I: Of the Accusatory Action and Denunciationcann. 1934–1938
- Chapter II: Of Inquisitioncann. 1939–1946
- Chapter III: Of the Correction of the Delinquentcann. 1947–1953
- Chapter IV: Of the Instruction of the Criminal Process and of the Constitution of the Defendantcann. 1954–1959