Title — Liber Sextus
Title XI: On the Sons of Priests and Others Illegitimately Born
Chapter I
Bishops dispense persons illegitimately born concerning minor orders and a benefice without cure, provided it is of a kind concerning which they can otherwise dispense. In other matters a dispensation of the Pope is required. John Andrew. — § 1. If someone has been dispensed so that, notwithstanding any defect, he can be promoted to a benefice with cure, by pretext of that dispensation he will not be able to hold two benefices at the same time. John Andrew.
Boniface VIII. One who suffers from a defect of birth can lawfully, by dispensation of the bishop, be promoted to minor orders and hold a benefice to which the cure of souls is not attached, if no other canonical impediment stands in his way, provided that the benefice is of such a kind that the bishop himself can dispense concerning it. He cannot be promoted without a dispensation of the Apostolic See to major orders or to benefices having the cure of souls, concerning which a bishop cannot dispense.
§ 1. One with whom the same See dispenses so that, notwithstanding the aforesaid defect, he can be promoted to a benefice even if it has the cure of souls cannot, by pretext of a dispensation of this kind—which, as exorbitant from the law, must be restricted as odious—hold more than one benefice.
DE FILIIS PRESBYTERORUM ET ALIIS ILLEGITIME NATIS.
Cum illegitime natis dispensant episcopi in minoribus ordinibus et beneficio sine cura; dummodo sit tale, in quo alias dispensare possint. In aliis dispensatio Papae requiritur. Ioann. Andr. — §. 1. Si dispensatum fuerit cum aliquo, quod non obstante ullo defectu possit ad curatum beneficium promoveri, praetextu illius dispensationis non poterit duo beneficia insimul obtinere. Ioann. Andr.
Bonifacius VIII.
Is, qui defectum patitur natalium, ex dispensatione episcopi licite potest, si ei aliud canonicum non obsistat, ad ordines promoveri minores, et obtinere beneficium, cui cura non imminet animarum; dummodo sit tale, super quo per ipsum episcopum valeat dispensari. Ad ordines quoque maiores, vel beneficia curam* animarum habentia, super quibus nequit episcopus dispensare, sine dispensatione’ sedis apostolicae promoveri non potest. §. i. Ille vero, cum quo per sedem dispensatur eandem, ut, praemisso non obstante defectu, valeat ad beneficium, etiamsi curam animarum habeat, promoveri, nequit praetextu dispensationis huiusmodi, (quam exorbitantem a iure oportet veluti odiosam restringi,) nisi unicum beneficium obtinere.
Chapter II
If one with whom a dispensation concerning defect of origin was made for a benefice with cure afterward obtains a dispensation for plurality while keeping that defect silent, the dispensation is not valid. John Andrew.
The same. If one with whom the Apostolic See dispensed so that, notwithstanding the defect of birth from which he suffers, he can be promoted to all orders and hold a benefice even if it has the cure of souls afterward obtains another dispensation from the aforesaid See, while keeping silent concerning the said defect, so that he can receive two or more benefices having a similar cure if they are otherwise canonically conferred upon him, and lawfully retain them together, such a dispensation is absolutely of no moment as obtained by subreption. For it is not probable that, if this had been expressed, the same See would have willed to dispense with him, suffering from the aforesaid defect, concerning a plurality of benefices of this kind.
Si ille, cum quo super defectu originis in curato beneficio fuerit dispensatum, eo tacito, super pluralitate dispensationem obtineat: non valet dispensatio. Ioann. Andr.
Idem.
Si is, cum quo fuit per sedem apostolicam dispensatum, ut, non obstante defectu natalium, quem patitur, ad omnes ordines promoveri valeat, et obtinere beneficium, etiamsi curam habeat animarum, dispensationem aliam, tacito de praedicto defectu, postmodum obtineat a sede praefata, ut duo aut plura beneficia similem curam habentia possit recipere, si ei alias canonice conferantur, et ea simul licite retinere: talis dispensatio, quum non sit verisimile, sedem ipsam cum illo, praedictum patiente defectum, voluisse, si hoc fuisset expressum, eidem in pluralitate beneficiorum huiusmodi dispensare, veluti per subreptionem obtenta nullius penitus est momenti.