Chapter — 1917 Code of Canon Law
Chapter V: Of Mutual Petitions or Reconventional Actions
Superseded as law in 1983 — read why this Code still matters. Each canon links to its 1983 counterpart.
§ 1. An action which the defendant institutes before the same judge in the same judgment against the actor for removing or diminishing his petition is called reconvention.
§ 2. Reconvention of reconvention is not admitted.
§ 1. Actio quam reus coram eodem iudice in eodem iudicio instituit contra actorem ad submovendam vel minuendam eius petitionem, dicitur reconventio.
§ 2. Reconventio reconventionis non admittitur.
1983 Code correlation: can. 1494
A reconventional action can have place in all contentious causes, with causes of spoliation excepted; in criminal causes, however, it is not admitted except according to the norm of can. 2218, Sec. 3.
Actio reconventionalis locum habere potest in omnibus causis contentiosis, exceptis causis spolii; in criminalibus vero non admittitur, nisi ad normam can. 2218, § 3.
It is to be proposed to the judge before whom the principal action has been instituted, although delegated for one cause only or otherwise incompetent, unless he is absolutely incompetent.
Proponenda est iudici coram quo actio principalis instituta est, licet ad unam causam dumtaxat delegato vel alioquin incompetenti, nisi sit absolute incompetens.
1983 Code correlation: can. 1495