Title — Liber Sextus
Title VII: On One Placed in Possession for the Purpose of Preserving the Thing
Chapter I
When an ecclesiastical benefice is at issue, a placing in possession is not made because of the defendant’s contumacy; rather, judgment is proceeded to without joinder of issue.
Innocent IV. We decree that one who litigates with a possessor concerning the obtaining of a dignity, personatus, or ecclesiastical benefice is not, because of the opposing party’s contumacy, to be placed in possession of them for the purpose of preserving the thing, lest through this a vicious entrance to them be able to lie open. But in this case, the divine presence supplying the presence of the contumacious person, it is lawful, even without joinder of issue, after the business has been diligently examined, to terminate it with its due conclusion.
DE EO, QUI MITTITUR IN POSSESSIONEM CAUSA REI SERVANDAE.
Quando agitur de beneficio ecclesiastico, ob contumaciam rei non fit missio in possessionem, sed ad sententiam lite non contestata proceditur.
Innocentius IV .
Eum, qui super dignitate, personatu vel beneficio ecclesiastico obtinendis cum aliquo litigat possessore, ob partis adversae contumaciam causae rei servandae in ipsorum possessionem statuimus non mittendum, ne per hoc ad ea ingressus patere valeat vitiosus; sed liceat in hoc casu, contumacis absentiam divina replente praesentia, etiam lite non contestata, diligenter examinato negotio, ipsum fine debito terminare.