Chapter — 1917 Code of Canon Law
Chapter III: Of Delays and Fatal Terms
Superseded as law in 1983 — read why this Code still matters. Each canon links to its 1983 counterpart.
§ 1. Those things which are called the fatalia of law, that is, terms constituted by law for extinguishing rights, cannot be prorogued.
§ 2. Judicial and conventional terms, however, before their lapse, can be prorogued by the judge, with a just cause intervening, the parties having been heard or petitioning.
§ 3. Nevertheless the judge is to beware lest the lawsuit become too long-lasting from prorogation.
§ 1. Fatalia legis quae dicuntur, idest termini perimendis iuribus a lege constituti, prorogari non possunt.
§ 2. Termini autem iudiciales et conventionales, ante eorum lapsum, poterunt, iusta intercedente causa, a iudice, auditis vel petentibus partibus, prorogari.
§ 3. Caveat tamen iudex ne nimis diuturna lis fiat ex prorogatione.
1983 Code correlation: can. 1465
If a day appointed for a judicial act is a feast day, and in the decree of the judge it is not expressly said that the tribunal will nevertheless be open for hearing causes, the term is understood to be prorogued to the first following non-feast day.
Si dies, pro actu iudiciali indicta, sit feriata nec in decreto iudicis dicatur expresse tribunal vacaturum nihilominus causis cognoscendis, terminus intelligitur prorogatus ad primam sequentem diem non feriatam.
1983 Code correlation: can. 1467