Title — Liber Sextus
Title XVIII: On Pacts
Chapter I
If monks having free burial by grant of the Apostolic See make a pact not to receive some or certain parishioners of a church, they are compelled to observe the pact and cannot bury them, although those persons chose to be buried among them, since through the pact they renounced the privilege. John Andrew.
Boniface VIII. You ought wholly to observe the pact made by you with the rector of a parish church that you will not receive for ecclesiastical burial some or certain parishioners of that church, although free burial has been granted to your monastery by the Apostolic See and those persons chose to be buried among you, since a grant of this kind is derogated from through the said pact.
DE PACTIS.
Monachi, habentes liberam a sede apostolica sepulturam, si paciscuntur de non recipiendis aliquibus vel certis parochianis ecclesiae alicuius, servare compelluntur pactum, nec illos sepelire poterunt, licet apud eos elegerint sepeliri, quum per pactum privilsgio renunciaverunt. Ioann. Andr.
Bonifacius VIII.
Pactum cum rectore parochialis ecclesiae factum a vobis, ne aliquos vel certos ipsius ecclesiae parochianos recipiatis ad ecclesiasticam sepulturam, omnino servare debetis, quanquam sepultura libera sit monasterio vestro ab apostolica sede indulta, et illi apud vos elegerint sepeliri: quum per dictum pactum induito huiusmodi derogetur.
Chapter II
A pact made to a father by a daughter when she was given in marriage, that, content with her dowry, she will have no recourse to her paternal goods, will be bound to be observed entirely if the daughter herself swore it. John Andrew.
The same. Although civil law disapproves a pact made to a father by a daughter when she was given in marriage, that, content with her dowry, she would have no recourse to her paternal goods, nevertheless, if it was confirmed by her with an oath given neither by force nor deceit, it ought to be observed entirely, since it does not tend toward loss of eternal salvation or redound to another’s detriment.
Pactum, factum patri a filia, dum tradebatur nuptui, quod dote contenta nullum habebit ad bona paterna regressum, si iuraverit id ipsa filia, omnino servare tenebitur. Ioann. Andr.
Idem.
Quamvis pactum, patri factum a filia, dum nuptui tradebatur, ut dote contenta nullum ad bona paterna regressum haberet, improbet lex civilis: si tamen iuramento non vi nec dolo praestito firmatum fuerit ab eadem, omnino servari debebit, quum non vergat in aeternae salutis dispendium, nec redundet in alterius detrimentum.
Chapter III
Pacts entered into by the Friars Preachers, Friars Minor, or other mendicants with rectors of parish churches concerning parochial rights, if made by priors or guardians with the consent of their convents in those places, are to be observed, provided they are otherwise lawful and honorable, although the authority of the Apostolic See or the permission of the prior general, minister general, master, provincial minister, or provincial chapter did not intervene. This is what it says. John Andrew.
The same. Because many scandals arise in diverse parts of the world, and great detraction is made from the reputation and honor of the Friars Preachers and Minors and other mendicants—whom it befits to observe complete purity in their actions and to abstain more readily from things through which ruinous example can be generated for others—because they refuse to observe compositions and pacts entered into or made by them or their predecessors with the prelates, chapters, rectors, and persons of the churches, cities, castles, towns, and places in which their houses or habitations exist, concerning parochial rights or any other articles, and strive to infringe them under the pretext that the assent of their masters, ministers, or priors general or provincial was not present in them and that they were not approved by their general or provincial chapters, we, intending to meet these things with the zeal of paternal solicitude, decree as follows by the present enactment.
Compositions and pacts of this kind made or approved with the aforesaid prelates, chapters, rectors, and persons by the conventual priors or guardians of the friars themselves, with the counsel and assent of their convents, provided they are otherwise lawful and honorable, ought perpetually and inviolably to be observed by those friars in the places in which they were made. It does not stand in the way that the assent of the aforesaid masters, ministers, or priors general or provincial did not intervene in them, that they were not approved by their general or provincial chapters, or that the Apostolic See did not furnish its authority or assent in those things made by the aforesaid Friars Minor.
Pacta, inita per fratres Praedicatores, vel Minores, vel alios mendicantes, cum rectoribus parochialium ecclesiarum super parochialibus iuribus, si facta sunt per priores vel guardianos de conventuum ipsorum locorum consensu, licet auctoritas sedis apostolicae non intervenerit, vel licentia prioris vel ministri generalis, aut magistri vel provincialis ministri, vel capituli provincialis, servanda sunt, dummodo alias sint licita et honesta.
H. d. Ioann. Andr.
Idem.
Quia ex eo, quod fratres Praedicatores et Minores et alii mendicantes, compositiones et pacta, cum praelatis, capitulis, rectoribus et personis ecclesiarum, civitatum, castrorum, villarum et locorum, in quibus domus seu habitationes eorum exsistunt, super iuribus parochialibus vel aliis quibuscunque articulis ab eis vel eorum antecessoribus inita sive facta, servare recusant, et ea eo praetextu infringere moliuntur, quia magistri aut ministri vel prioris generalium seu provincialium eorundem non adfuit assensus in ipsis, nec approbata per ipsorum generalia vel provincialia capitula exstiterunt, multa in diversis mundi partibus insurgunt scandala, et ipsorum fratrum, (quos decet puritatem omnimodam in suis observare actionibus*, et ab his abstinere propensius, per quae possit aliis exempli pernicies generari,) famae detrahitur plurimum et honori: nos, his occurrere paternae sollicitudinis studio intendentes, praesenti decreto sancimus, compositiones et pacta huiusmodi, cum praelatis, capitulis et rectoribus et personis praedictis ab ipsorum fratrum conventualibus prioribus seu guardianis facta vel approbata de suorum conventuum consilio et assensu, (dum tamen alias sint licita et honesta,) debere ab ipsis fratribus in locis, in quibus fuerint facta, perpetuo inviolabiliter observari, non obstante, quod magistri vel ministri aut prioris generalium seu provincialium praedictorum non intervenerit in eisdem assensus, nec ab ipsorum generalibus vel provincialibus capitulis exstiterint approbata, seu quod sedes apostolica in his, quae per praedictos fratres Minores facta fuerint, auctoritatem suam non praestiterit vel assensum.