Article — 1917 Code of Canon Law
Article IV: Of Couriers and Apparitors
Superseded as law in 1983 — read why this Code still matters. Each canon links to its 1983 counterpart.
§ 1. For intimating judicial acts, unless there is another approved custom of the tribunal, couriers are to be constituted either for all causes or for a particular cause; likewise apparitors for carrying out the execution of sentences and decrees of the judge, when he commits it.
§ 2. The same person can discharge both offices.
§ 1. Ad acta iudicialia intimanda, nisi alia sit probata tribunalis consuetudo, constituantur cursores sive pro omnibus causis sive pro causa peculiari; item apparitores ad sententias ac decreta iudicis, eo committente, exsecutioni mandanda.
§ 2. Eadem persona utroque officio defungi potest.
Let them themselves be lay persons, unless prudence in some cause suggests that ecclesiastics be assumed for this function; but as regards their nomination, suspension, and revocation, the same rules are to be observed which are established for notaries in can. 373.
Laici ipsi sint, nisi prudentia in aliqua causa suadeat ut ecclesiastici ad id muneris assumantur; quod vero ad eorum nominationem, suspensionem et revocationem attinet, eaedem serventur regulae quae pro notariis can. 373 statutae sunt.
Acts which these persons have made have public faith.
Acta quae hi confecerint, publicam fidem faciunt.