Title — Liber Sextus
Title X: On the Age, Quality, and Order of Those to Be Preferred
Chapter I
A bishop dispenses persons older than twenty years concerning dignities and personatuses without cure, if nothing else stands in the way. This is what it says. Dominicus.
Boniface VIII. We permit bishops freely to dispense with those who have completed their twentieth year, if no other canonical impediment stands in the way, so that they can hold dignities or personatuses to which the cure of souls is not attached.
DE AETATE ET QUALITATE ET ORDINE PRAEFICIENDORUM.
Episcopus dispensat cum maiore XX. annis in dignitatibus et personatibus non curatis, si aliud non obstet. H. d. Dominicus.
Bonifacius VIII.
Permittimus, ut episcopi cum iis, qui XX. annum compleverint, quod dignitates vel personatus, quibus animarum cura non imminet, valeant obtinere, possint, si aliud non obstat* canonicum, libere dispensare.