Extravagantes

Meaning of Extravagantes in the Past

This is the name given to the constitutions (see more about this popular legal topic in the U.S. encyclopedia) of the popes posterior to the Clementines; they are therefore, called quasi vagantes extra corpus juris, to express that they were out of the canonical law, which at first contained only the decrees of Gratian; afterwards the decretals of Gregory IX., the sexte of Boniface. VIII., the Clementines and at last the extravagantes were added to it. There are the extravagantes of John XXII. and the common ‘extravagantes.’ The first contain twenty epistles, decretals or constitutions (see more about this popular legal topic in the U.S. encyclopedia) of that pope, divided under fifteen titles, without any subdivision into books. There is further information on this topic in this legal reference. The others are epistles, decretals or constitutions (see more about this popular legal topic in the U.S. encyclopedia) of the popes who occupied the holy see, either before or after John XXII. they are divided into books like the decretals. [1]

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1. Partialy, this information about extravagantes is based on the Bouvier´s Law Dictionary, 1848 edition. There is a list of terms of the Bouvier´s Law Dictionary, including extravagantes.

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