Title — Decretals of Gregory IX
Title XIV: On Precarious Grants
Chapter I
Latin source headnote: It is brief and cannot be summarized more briefly.
From the Council at Beauvais.
Precarious grants shall be renewed from five years to five years according to authority and ancient custom.
DE PRECARIIS.
Breve est, nec potest brevius summari.
Ex concilio apud Belvacum.
Precariae de quinquennio in quinquennium secundum auctoritatem et antiquam consuetudinem renoventur.
Chapter II
Latin source headnote: A successor revokes a precarious grant unreasonably made by his predecessor.
From the Council of Carthage.
Concerning precarious grants unreasonably made by rectors of churches who bind themselves and their successors under a grave penalty so that they cannot dissolve their acts, we command that no successor be bound by the penalty of his predecessor, but that it be granted to his providence that, if his predecessor unreasonably distributed the property of the church, it be recalled by him to the right of that church.
Revocat successor precariam per praedecessorem irrationabiliter factam.
Ex concilio Carthaginensi.
De precariis, irrationabiliter factis a rectoribus ecclesiarum, se suosque successores poena gravi obligantibus, ut facta ipsorum dissolvere nequeant, praecipimus, ut nemo successor antecessoris sui poena sit obligatus, sed suae providentiae sit concessum, ut, si antecessor eius res ecclesiae irrationabiliter distribuit, ab eo ad ius eiusdem ecclesiae revocentur.
Chapter III
Latin source headnote: The grant of a loan for use is extinguished by the will of the grantor or his successor; but the grant of a precarium is not.
Gregory IX.
A thing loaned for use is granted for as long as the one who granted it permits. It is also dissolved by the death of the one to whom it was granted, but not by that of the grantor; or when it happens to be alienated to someone wishing to revoke it, because by an agreement of this kind it is not lawful for another's property to be possessed against the owner's will. But precarious grants that are sometimes customarily made from possessions of churches are not to be revoked at the will of the grantors.
Concessio precarii extinguitur voluntate concedentis aut ei succedentis; precariae autem concessio non.
Gregorius IX.
Precarium utendum conceditur, quamdiu patitur qui concessit. Solvitur quoque obitu eius, cui concessum est, non etiam concedentis; aut quum ipsum alienari contingit alicui hoc revocare volenti, quia per conventionem huiusmodi non licet rem alienam invito domino possideri. Porro precariae, quae quandoque de ecclesiarum possessionibus fieri solent, non sunt pro voluntate concedentium revocandae.