Title — Liber Sextus
Title VIII: On Injuries and Damage Inflicted
Chapter I
Reprisals ought not to be granted against ecclesiastical persons, nor ought reprisals already granted to be extended to them; individual persons acting contrary to this are excommunicated, and corporate bodies interdicted, unless they revoke them within a month. Johannes Andreae.
Gregory X, in the general Council of Lyon.
Although seizures of pledges which common speech calls reprisals, in which one person is burdened for another, are prohibited by civil legislation as grave and contrary to laws and natural equity, nevertheless, so that their prohibition may be feared all the more with respect to ecclesiastical persons, the more specially they are forbidden in their case, by the present decree we more strictly prohibit reprisals from being granted against the aforesaid persons or their goods, or reprisals granted however generally under pretext of any custom—which we regard rather as an abuse—from being extended to them. But those who act contrary to this by granting seizures or reprisals against the same persons or extending them to those persons, unless they revoke a presumption of this kind within a month from the time of the grant or extension, shall incur a sentence of excommunication if they are individual persons; but if a corporate body, it shall be subject to ecclesiastical interdict.
DE INIURIIS ET DAMNO DATO.
Repressaliae contra personas ecclesiasticas concedi vel concessae extendi non debent; contra facientes, nisi revocent infra mensem, singulares sunt excommunicati, universitates interdictae. Ioann. Andr.
Gregorius X. in concilio generali Lugdunensi.
Etsi pignorationes, quas vulgaris elocutio repressalias nominat, in quibus alius pro alio praegravatur, tanquam graves legibus et aequitati naturali contrariae civili sint constitutione prohibitae, ut tamen earum prohibitio in personis ecclesiasticis tanto amplius timeatur, quanto in illis specialius inhibentur: eas concedi contra personas praedictas seu bona ipsorum , aut quantumcunque generaliter praetextu cuiusvis consuetudinis, quam potius reputamus abusum fore , concessas, ad illas extendi praesenti decreto districtius inhibemus. Illi autem, qui contra fecerint, adversus personas easdem pignorationes seu repressalias concedendo, vel extendendo ad eas, nisi praesumptionem huiusmodi revocaverint a concessionis vel extensionis tempore infra mensem, si personae singulares fuerint, sententiam excommunicationis incurrant, si vero universitas, ecclesiastico subiaceat interdicto.