Title — Liber Sextus
Title XXI: On Restitution in Integrum
Chapter I
After four years a church is not admitted to seek restitution against a sentence or contract unless some reasonable cause counsels it. John Andrew.
Gregory IX. A church that petitions to be admitted by the benefit of restitution in integrum to retract a sentence or contract is not to be admitted to a benefit of this kind if the space of four years has afterward elapsed and it negligently omitted to act, unless it is manifestly proved that a contrivance of prevarication or fraud intervened concerning this, or another reasonable cause exists that ought to move the superior to grant the same benefit.
DE RESTITUTIONE IN INTEGRUM.
Ecclesia post quadriennium non admittitur ad petendum restitutionem contra sententiam vel contractum, nisi rationabilis aliqua causa hoc suadeat. Ioann. Andr.
Gregorius IX.
Ecclesia, quae ad retractandam sententiam vel contractum per beneficium restitutionis in integrum postulat se admitti, si quadriennii spatium post sit lapsum*, et negligenter omiserit, non est ad beneficium huiusmodi admittenda, nisi praevaricationis vel fraudis manifeste probetur super hoc intervenisse commentum, aut alia rationabilis causa subsit, quae superiorem movere debeat ad idem beneficium concedendum.
Chapter II
A church is admitted within four years, through the benefit of restitution in integrum, against a confession by which it was harmed; afterward it is not, except by the way of the common law. John Andrew.
Boniface VIII. If a church harmed by a confession made by it in a judicial proceeding negligently omits to seek the benefit of restitution in integrum within four years, counted from the time of that confession, it is not thereafter to be admitted to seek this unless something reasonable appears that counsels that it be done otherwise. But where a church wishes to aid itself against its confession by the common way of revoking an error that it alleges in fact, it can do this at any time until the business has been concluded.
Ecclesia contra confessionem, qua laesa fuit, admittitur infra quadriennium per beneficium restitutionis in integrum, postea non, nisi per viam iuris communis. Ioann. Andr.
Bonifacius VIII.
Si adversus confessionem in iudicio a se factam laesa ecclesia beneficium restitutionis in integrum infra quadriennium, ab ipsius confessionis tempore computandum, petere negligenteromittat: non est, nisi aliquid rationabile appareat, quod aliud suaserit faciendum, ad hoc petendum ulterius admittenda. Ubi vero per viam communem revocationis erroris, quem in facto praetendit, vult adversus suam confessionem ecclesia se iuvare: hoc quandocunque poterit, donec negotium sit finitum.