Title — Liber Sextus
Title XIX: On the Right of Patronage
Chapter I
A gift of a layman's right of patronage made to an ecclesiastical place has force even without the bishop's consent; nevertheless, it does not prejudice the bishop's right. This states the point. Dominicus. — § 1. A layman has a period of four months for presenting, but a church has six months, even if it acquired the right of patronage from a layman. This states the point. Dominicus.
Boniface VIII.
If a layman decides to confer upon a church, or upon another church or religious place, a right of patronage over the church that belongs to him, a collation of this kind is to be regarded as effectual although it was made without the bishop's assent. Nevertheless, through the aforesaid collation we do not wish any derogation to be made from the right of the bishop who did not furnish his assent to it.
§ 1. But although a lay patron has a period of only four months for presenting, a church or monastery upon which the collation of the right of patronage was made by a layman has a period of six months and, with regard to presentation, is to be regarded in every respect not as a lay patron but as an ecclesiastical patron.
DE IURE PATRONATUS.
Donatio iuris patronatus laici, facta loco ecclesiastico, etiam sine consensu episcopi tenet; non tamen praeiudicat iuri episcopi. H. d. Dominic. — §. 1. Laicus quadrimestre tempus habet ad praesentandum, ecclesia vero semestre, licet a laico acquisiverit ius patronatus. Hoc dicit Dominicus.
Bonifacius VIII.
Si laicus ius patronatus ecclesiae sibi competens eidem vel alteri ecclesiae seu loco religioso duxerit conferendum : •huiusmodi collatio, quamvis absque assensu episcopi facta fuerit, efficax est censenda, per praefatam tamen collationem iuri episcopi, qui eidem assensum non praebuit, nolumus in aliquo derogari. §. 1. Verum licet patronus laicus ad praesentandum tempus habeat quadrimestre duntaxat: ecclesia tamen vel monasterium, cui facta est a laico iuris patronatus collatio, tempus habet semestre, et omnino, quantum ad praesentationem pertinet, non ut patronus laicus, sed ut patronus debet ecclesiasticus reputari.