Title — Liber Sextus
Title II: On Married Clerics
Chapter I
If a married cleric wears clerical dress and the tonsure, he enjoys clerical privilege; otherwise, he does not. John Andrew.
Boniface VIII.
Clerics who have contracted marriage with women married only once and virgins shall, if they wear the tonsure and clerical garments, retain the privilege of the canon issued by Pope Innocent II, our predecessor, in favor of the whole clerical order. And since, according to the Council of Paris, no cleric ought to be constrained or condemned by a secular judge, by the present edict we declare that married clerics of this kind cannot, for excesses or delicts committed by them, be drawn criminally or civilly before a secular court, nor ought they in any way to be condemned personally, or even pecuniarily, by the secular judges themselves—lest by one route there be granted to those judges what is denied them by another. In other matters, however, or unless, as was premised, they wear the tonsure or clerical garments, we do not wish them to enjoy clerical privilege even in the aforesaid matters.
DE CLERICIS CONIUGATIS.
Si clericus coniugatus ferat habitum et tonsuram, clericali privilegio gaudeat; alias non. Ioann. Andr.
Bonifacius VIII.
Clerici, qui cum unicis et virginibus contraxerunt, si tonsuram et vestes deferant clericales, privilegium retineant * canonis ab Innocentio Papa II. praedecessore nostro editi in favorem totius ordinis clericalis. Et quum iuxta Parisiense concilium nullus clericus distringi aut condemnari debeat a iudice saeculari: praesenti declaramus edicto, huiusmodi clericos coniugatos pro commissis ab eis excessibus vel delictis trahi non posse criminaliter aut civiliter ad iudicium saeculare, nec ab ipsis saecularibus iudicibus eos debere personaliter * vel etiam pecunialiter, (ne per unam viam concedatur eisdem iudicibus quod per aliam denegatur,) ullatenus condemnari. In ceteris autem, vel nisi, ut praemittitur, tonsuram vel * vestes deferant clericales,etiam in praemissis eos gaudere nolumus privilegio clericali.