Title — Liber Sextus
Title XIII: On the Office of a Vicar
Chapter I
The successor of an excommunicated official is not excommunicated unless he communicates in the condemned crime; however, the things that he performs while the former remains excommunicated are not valid if he does this solely by jurisdiction received from him. John Andrew.
Innocent IV. The Roman Church—(And below:) When the Archbishop of Reims pronounces a sentence of excommunication against the official of one of his suffragans for some reasonable cause, he does not on that account bind with the bond of excommunication those who discharge the official’s functions, since for this reason they do not communicate with that official in the crime, and they are not constrained by the rigor of ecclesiastical censure because they exercise their office. Nevertheless, if they receive jurisdiction only from that official, the things that they do in discharging functions of this kind cannot obtain force while he remains thus excommunicated.
DE OFFICIO VICARII.
Successor officialis excommunicati excommunicatus non est, nisi in crimine damnato communicet, illa autem, quae exercet: illo excommunicato manente non valent, si iurisdictione solum ab eo recepta hoc facit. Ioann.
Andr.
Innocentius IV.
Romana ecclesia (Et infra:) Quum Remensis archiepiscopus in officialem alicuius suffraganei sui excommunicationis sententiam ex aliqua rationabili causa profert, illos, qui vices ipsius gerunt, propter hoc excommunicationis vinculo non adstringit, quum non communicent ob id officiali eidem in crimine, qui ecclesiasticae censurae districtione pro eo, quod suum exercent officium, non arctantur. Ea tamen, quae ipsi gerendo huiusmodi vices agunt, eotaliter excommunicato manente, si iurisdictionem tantum recipiunt ab eodem, non possunt obtinere vigorem.
Chapter II
By a general commission an official cannot inquire into, correct, depose for, and punish the excesses of subjects. John Andrew.
Boniface VIII. Although cognizance of causes is transferred to a bishop’s official through a commission of office made to him in general, nevertheless, unless these things are specially committed to him, we will that the power of inquiring into, correcting, or punishing the excesses of any persons, or of removing any persons from their benefices, offices, or administrations, not be transferred to him.
Ex generali commissione non potest officialis inquirere, corrigere, deponere, et punire subditorum excessus. Ioann. Andr.
Bonifacius VIII.
Licet in officialem episcopi per commissionem officii, generaliter sibi factam, causarum cognitio transferatur, potestatem tamen inquirendi, corrigendi aut puniendi aliquorum excessus, seu aliquos a suis beneficiis, officiis * vel administrationibus amovendi, transferri nolumus in eundem, nisi sibi specialiter haec committantur.
Chapter III
By a general commission an official cannot confer benefices. John Andrew.
The same. Since those things that a person would not probably grant specifically are by no means included in a general grant, and since one to whom even free administration of goods is granted cannot as a rule make gifts, a bishop’s official or vicar general cannot confer benefices unless the collation of benefices has been specially committed to them.
Ex generali commissione officialis beneficia conferre non potest.
Ioann. Andr.
Idem.
Quum in generali concessione nequaquam illa veniant, quae non esset quis verisimiliter in specie concessurus, nec regulariter donare valeat is, cui bonorum administratio etiam libera est concessa: officialis aut vicarius generalis episcopi beneficia conferre non possunt, nisi beneficiorum collatio ipsis specialiter sit commissa.