Chapter — 1917 Code of Canon Law
Chapter I: Of Penal Remedies
Superseded as law in 1983 — read why this Code still matters. Each canon links to its 1983 counterpart.
Penal remedies are:
1° Warning.
2° Correction.
3° Precept.
4° Vigilance.
Remedia poenalia sunt:
1° Monitio;
2° Correptio;
3° Praeceptum;
4° Vigilantia.
The Ordinary, by himself or through an interposed person, is to warn one who is situated in the proximate occasion of committing a delict or upon whom, from an investigation carried out, grave suspicion of a committed delict falls.
Eum qui versatur in proxima occasione delictum committendi vel in quem, ex inquisitione peracta, gravis suspicio cadit delicti commissi, Ordinarius per se vel per interpositam personam moneat.
1983 Code correlation: can. 1339
If from someone's manner of life scandal or grave disturbance of order arises, there is place for correction, to be made by the Ordinary by himself or through an interposed person, even by letter, accommodated to the peculiar conditions of the person and of the fact of which there is question.
Si ex alicuius conversatione scandalum vel gravis ordinis perturbatio oriantur, est locus correptioni, ab Ordinario per se vel per interpositam personam, etiam per epistolam faciendae, peculiaribus accommodatae conditionibus personae et facti de quo agitur.
1983 Code correlation: can. 1339
§ 1. Both warning and correction can be either public or secret.
§ 2. Public correction or warning is to be made either before a notary or two witnesses, or by letter, yet in such a way that the reception and tenor of the letter are established by some document.
§ 3. Public correction can be made only against an accused convicted of or confessing the delict; and it is judicial if it is made by a judge sitting as a tribunal or by the Ordinary before the criminal process.
§ 4. Judicial correction is either held in place of a penalty or is made for increasing a penalty, especially if there is question of a recidivist.
§ 5. Concerning warning and correction, even if they were made secretly, it must be established by some document to be preserved in the secret archive of the Curia.
§ 6. Both correction and warning can be made once or several times, according to the judgment and prudence of the Superior.
§ 1. Tam monitio quam correptio potest esse vel publica vel secreta.
§ 2. Correptio vel monitio publica fiat vel coram notario aut duobus testibus, vel per epistolam ita tamen ut de receptione et tenore epistolae ex aliquo documento constet.
§ 3. Correptio publica fieri tantum potest adversus reum de delicto convictum vel confessum; et est iudicialis, si fiat a iudice pro tribunali sedente vel ab Ordinario ante processum criminalem.
§ 4. Correptio iudicialis vel habetur loco poenae vel fit ad augendam poenam, praecipue si agatur de recidivo.
§ 5. De monitione et correptione, etsi secreto factae fuerint, constare debet ex aliquo documento in secreto archivo Curiae asservando.
§ 6. Tam correptio quam monitio fieri potest semel vel pluries, pro Superioris arbitrio et prudentia.
1983 Code correlation: can. 1339
Warnings and corrections having been made in vain, or if one may not hope for an effect from them, a precept is given, by which what the one warned must do or avoid is accurately indicated, with a threat of penalty in the case of transgression.
Monitionibus et correptionibus incassum factis, vel si ex eisdem effectum sperare non liceat, datur praeceptum, quo quid agere quidve evitare praeventus debeat, accurate indicetur, cum poenae comminatione in casu transgressionis.
§ 1. If the gravity of the case bears it and especially if there is question of one who is situated in danger of relapsing into the same crime, let the Ordinary submit him to vigilance.
§ 2. Vigilance can also be prescribed for increasing a penalty, especially against recidivists.
§ 1. Si casus gravitas ferat et praecipue si agatur de eo qui in periculo versetur relabendi in idem crimen, eum Ordinarius submittat vigilantiae.
§ 2. Vigilantia praecipi quoque potest ad augendam poenam, praecipue in recidivos.