Title — Liber Sextus
Title VIII: That Nothing Be Innovated While the See Is Vacant
Chapter I
When collation belongs jointly to the bishop and chapter, if one of them is rendered incapable, the other confers. This states the point as far as § “But when,” according to Dominicus. — § 1. When collation belongs to the bishop with the counsel or assent of the chapter, if the bishop is incapable, the chapter does not confer unless he is in default. This states the point. — § 2. One having the power to confer with the counsel of the bishop confers without it when death or remote absence intervenes. This states the point. Dominicus.
Boniface VIII.
If the collation of prebends belongs jointly to the bishop and chapter, then, when the bishop is dead or suspended from the collation of benefices, the chapter will be able to confer vacant prebends, even if the bishop participates in a collation of this kind as prelate. The bishop will be able to do the same if it happens that the chapter is suspended from the collation itself, or all the individual members of the chapter are bound by the bond of major excommunication.
§ 1. But when the collation of prebends belongs to the bishop alone with the counsel or assent of his chapter, the chapter cannot intermeddle with them when the bishop is dead or suspended, unless the bishop is in default in seeking relaxation of such suspension.
§ 2. But where, by the special custom or statute of some church, the collation of benefices is known to belong to someone with the counsel of the bishop, when the bishop has been removed from their midst, since counsel cannot then be sought from him, the collation of a vacant benefice is not on that account to be deferred. Nor is it to be deferred if he is staying in remote places so that his presence cannot shortly be obtained, because danger could be imminent to the vacant benefice in seeking or awaiting his counsel.
NE SEDE VACANTE ALIQUID INNOVETUR.
Collatione communiter ad episcopum et capitulum pertinente, uno ipsorum effecto inhabili, alter confert. H. d. usque ad §. Quum vero, secundum Dominicum. — §. 1. Collatione spectante ad episcopum de consilio vel assensu capituli, illo exsistente inhabili, nisi sit in mora, non confert capitulum. Hoc dicit. — §. 2. Habens conferre cum consilio episcopi, sine illo confert, morte et remota absentia interveniente. H. d. Dominicus.
Bonifacius VIII.
Si ad episcopum et capitulum communiter pertineat collatio praebendarum, mortuo episcopo vel a beneficiorum collatione suspenso, poterit capitulum vacantes conferre praebendas, etiamsi episcopus interesse habeat in collatione huiusmodi ut praelatus. Idem poterit episcopus, si capitulum ab ipsa collatione suspendi contingat, vel singulariter omnes de capitulo maioris excommunicationis vinculo innodari. §. i. Quum vero ad solum episcopum praebendarum spectat collatio cum consilio sui capituli vel assensu: defuncto episcopo vel suspenso, nisi episcopus in petenda relaxatione suspensionis huiusmodi sit in mora, capitulum se non potest intromittere de eisdem. §. 2. Ubi vero de speciali alicuius ecclesiae consuetudine vel statuto beneficiorum collatio ad aliquem cum consilio episcopi noscitur pertinere: sublato episcopo de medio, quum consilium nequeat tunc peti ab eo, non erit propter hoc vacantis beneficii collatio differenda, nec etiam, si egerit in remotis ita, quod non possit ipsius praesentia in brevi haberi, quia in petendo vel exspectando eius consilio posset vacanti beneficio periculum imminere.