Title — Liber Sextus
Title XXIV: Lest Clerics or Monks Involve Themselves in Secular Business
Chapter I
The chapter “On the Watchtower,” which prohibits the hearing of laws or medicine, does not include those having parish churches unless they are mother churches having chapels under them in which clerics are perpetually instituted. This states the point. Dominicus.
Boniface VIII.
Following in the footsteps of Pope Clement IV of pious memory, our predecessor, we declare by the pronouncement of the present constitution that the statute of Pope Honorius III of happy memory, our predecessor, which prohibits deans, archdeacons, provosts, plebani, cantors, and other clerics having personates from hearing laws or medicine, does not extend by reason of such churches to those known to hold parish churches, unless those churches are plebaniae having chapels under them in which perpetual clerics are instituted who cannot be removed from them without reasonable cause.
DE CLERICI VEL MONACHI SAECULARIBUS NEGOTIIS SE IMMISCEANT.
Capitulum super Specula, prohibens audientiam legum vel physicae, non includit parochiales ecclesias habentes, nisi sint plebaniae, habentes sub se capellas, in quibus clerici perpetuo instituantur. H. d. Domin.
Bonifacius VIII.
Statutum felicis recordationis Honorii Papae III. praedecessoris nostri, quod decanis, archidiaconis, praepositis, plebanis, cantoribus et aliis clericis, habentibus personatus, audire leges vel physicam interdicit, ad eos, qui parochiales ecclesias obtinere noscuntur, piae memoriae Clementis Papae IV. praedecessoris nostri vestigiis inhaerentes, declaramus praesentis constitutionis oraculo ratione ecclesiarum huiusmodi non extendi, nisi eaedem ecclesiae fuerint plebaniae sub se capellas habentes, in quibus instituantur clerici perpetui, nequeuntes ab ipsis absque causa rationabili amoveri.
Chapter II
A professed religious who rashly lays aside the habit, or approaches any course of study without obtaining the license of the prelate and convent, is excommunicated by the fact itself. Doctors who knowingly teach, or retain in schools for laws or medicine, such religious likewise incur excommunication. This states the point. Dominicus.
The same.
So that dangerous occasion for wandering may be taken away from religious, we strictly prohibit anyone who has tacitly or expressly professed any religious order from hereafter rashly laying aside the habit of his religious order in schools or elsewhere, or approaching any studies of letters, unless license to go to study has first been granted to him by his prelate with the counsel of his convent or its greater part. If anyone is a rash violator of these things, he shall by the fact itself incur a sentence of excommunication. Doctors or masters who presume knowingly to teach religious who have laid aside their habit and are hearing laws or medicine, or to retain them in their schools, shall by that very fact be bound by a similar sentence.
Excommunicatus est ipso facto religiosus, professus, habitum temerarie dimittens, vel ad quaecunque studia accedens, non obtenta licentia praelati et conventus. Doctores, scienter docentes, vel in scholis retinentes ad leges vel physicam tales religiosos, similiter excommunicationem incurrunt. H. d. Dominicus.
Idem .
Ut periculosa religiosis evagandi materia subtrahatur, districtius inhibemus, ne de cetero aliquis, quamcunque religionem tacite vel expresse professus, in scholis vel alibi temere habitum religionis suae dimittat, nec accedat ad quaevis studia literarum, nisi a suo praelato cum consilio sui conventus vel maioris partis eiusdem sibi eundi ad studium licentia primitus sit concessa. Si quis autem horum temerarius violator exstiterit: excommunicationis incurrat sententiam ipso facto. Doctores quoque sive magistri, qui religiosos, habitu suo dimisso, leges vel physicam audientes scienter docere, aut in scholis suis praesumpserint retinere, simili eo ipso sint sententia innodati.
Chapter III
A cleric who, in a place under his temporal jurisdiction, delegates concerning a delict committed there that, after the truth has been inquired into, justice be executed, does not become irregular, although a punishment of blood is inflicted. This states the point. Dominicus.
The same.
A bishop or any other prelate or cleric possessing temporal jurisdiction, if he enjoins his bailiff or anyone else concerning a homicide or other malefaction committed by certain persons within his jurisdiction to inquire into the truth concerning it and execute what justice requires, ought not to be regarded as irregular, although the bailiff himself or another proceeds through justice against the malefactors to a punishment of blood. For although it is not lawful for clerics to conduct causes of blood, when they possess temporal jurisdiction they nevertheless ought and can, fear of irregularity ceasing, delegate them to others.
Clericus, in loco temporalis iurisdictionis suae super delicto ibi commisso delegans, ut veritate inquisita iustitiam exsequatur, irregularis non efficitur, licet poena sanguinis inferatur. H. d. Domin.
Idem.
Episcopus seu quicunque alius praelatus vel clericus, iurisdictionem obtinens temporalem, si homicidio aut alio maleficio, ab aliquibus in iurisdictione sua commisso, ballivo suo aut alii cuicunque iniungat, ut super hoc veritatem inquirens iustitiae debitum exsequatur, irregularis censeri non debet, quamvis ipse ballivus vel alius contra malefactores ad poenam sanguinis processerit iustitia mediante. Nam licet clericis causas sanguinis agitare non liceat: eas tamen, quum iurisdictionem obtinent temporalem, debent et possunt metu irregularitatis cessante aliis delegare.