Article II: On The Privilege Of Exemption

2184. • EXEMPTION is a privilege by which either some place or person (physical or moral), or a place and person at the same time, within the territory of some ordinary jurisdiction, is withdrawn from the same.

Some exemptions have been conceded by the Supreme Pontiff, others by Bishops. Some exempt from episcopal jurisdiction, others from parochial jurisdiction, or even from inferior jurisdiction. - Some are personal, others local, others personal and local at the same time.

The exemption of Regulars: 1) has been conceded by the Supreme Pontiff; 2) exempts from jurisdiction, both episcopal and parochial; 3) is at once personal and local. - Moreover it is conceded most justly: both so that religious Orders may enjoy greater tranquility, unity, and vigor of discipline under the single governance of their own Prelates; and so that particular Churches may be bound by a stronger bond to the center of unity, i.e. to the Apostolic See.²

With these things having been premised, there comes to be explained: 1. what the exemption of Regulars comprehends; 2. what it does not comprehend.