Title — Liber Sextus
Title III: On Joinder of Issue
Chapter I
A peremptory exception does not prevent joinder of issue unless it concerns a matter once concluded. John Andrew.
Innocent IV at the Council of Lyons. The objection, before joinder of issue, of a peremptory exception or any principal defense touching cognizance of the business is not to impede or delay joinder of issue, unless the litigant pleads that the matter has been adjudged, settled, or concluded, even if the objector says that the rescript would not have been obtained if the things opposed to the petitioner had been explained to the delegator.
DE LITIS CONTESTATIONE.
Peremptoria litis contestationem non impedit, nisi sit de re semel finita.
Ioann. Andr.
Innocentius IV. in concilio Lugdunensi .
Exceptionis peremptoriae seu defensionis cuiuslibet principalis cognitionem negotii contingentis ante litem contestatam obiectus, nisi de re iudicata, transacta seu finita excipiat litigator, litis contestationem non impediat, nec retardet, licet dicat obiector, quod * rescriptum non fuisset * obtentum, si quae sunt impetranti opposita fuissent exposita deleganti.
Chapter II
Joinder of issue is not made through a peremptory exception. John Andrew.
Boniface VIII. If, after a libel has been offered by the plaintiff, a peremptory exception is proposed on the defendant’s behalf, joinder of issue is by no means understood to have been made through this. Rather, notwithstanding that exception, joinder of issue will have to be made unless it is among those exceptions that impede joinder of issue.
Per exceptionem peremptoriam non fit litis contestatio. Ioann. Andr.
Bonifacius VIII.
Si, oblato ab actore libello, ex parte rei exceptio peremptoria proponatur: nequaquam per hoc litis contestatio intelligitur esse facta; immo, ea non obstante, nisi sit de illis exceptionibus, quae litis contestationem impediunt, fieri oportebit eandem.