Canon 35. Within the limits of his or her competence, one who has executive power can issue a singular administrative act, either by decree or precept, or by rescript, without prejudice to can. 76 §1.

Actus administrativus singularis, sive est decretum aut praeceptum sive est rescriptum, elici potest, intra fines suae competentiae, ab eo qui potestate exsecutiva gaudet, firmo praescripto can. 76, §1.

Canon 36. §1 An administrative act is to be understood according to the proper meaning of the words and the common manner of speaking. In doubt, a strict interpretation is to be given to those administrative acts which concern litigation or threaten or inflict penalties, or restrict the rights of persons, or harm the acquired rights of others, or run counter to a law in favour of private persons; all other administrative acts are to be widely interpreted.

§2 Administrative acts must not be extended to cases other than those expressly stated.

§1. Actus administrativus intellegendus est secundum propriam verborum significationem et communem loquendi usum; in dubio, qui ad lites referuntur aut ad poenas comminandas infligendasve attinent aut personae iura coarctant aut iura aliis quaesita laedunt aut adversantur legi incommodum privatorum, strictae subsunt interpretationi; ceteri omnes, latae.

§2. Actus administrativus non debet ad alios casus praeter expressos extendi.

Canon 37. An administrative act which concerns the external forum is to be effected in writing; likewise, if it requires an executor, the act of execution is to be in writing.

Actus administrativus, qui forum externum respicit, scripto est consignandus; item, si fit in forma commissoria, actus huius exsecutionis.

Canon 38. An administrative act, even if there is question of a rescript given Motu proprio, has no effect in so far as it harms the acquired right of another, or is contrary to a law or approved custom, unless the competent authority has expressly added a derogatory clause.

Actus administrativus, etiam si agatur de rescripto Motu proprio dato, effectu caret quatenus ius alteri quaesitum laedit aut legi consuetudinive probatae contrarius est, nisi auctoritas competens expresse clausulam derogatoriam addiderit.

Canon 39. Conditions attached to an administrative act are considered to concern validity only when they are expressed by the particles ‘if’, ‘unless’, ‘provided that’.

Condiciones in actu administrativo tunc tantum ad validitatem censentur adiectae, cum per particulas si, nisi, dummodo exprimuntur.

Canon 40. The executor of any administrative act cannot validly carry out this office before receiving the relevant document and establishing its authenticity and integrity, unless prior notice of this document has been conveyed to the executor on the authority of the person who issued the administrative act.

Exsecutor alicuius actus administrativi invalide suo munere fungitur, antequam litteras receperit earumque authenticitatem et integritatem recognoverit, nisi praevia earundem notitia ad ipsum auctoritate eundem actum edentis transmissa fuerit.

Canon 41. The executor of an administrative act to whom the task of execution only is entrusted, cannot refuse to execute it, unless it is quite clear that the act itself is null, or that it cannot for some other grave reason be sustained, or that the conditions attached to the administrative act itself have not been fulfilled. If, however, the execution of the administrative act would appear to be inopportune, by reason of the circumstances of person or place, the executor is to desist from the execution, and immediately inform the person who issued the act.

Exsecutor actus administrativi cui committitur merum exsecutionis ministerium, exsecutionem huius actus denegare non potest, nisi manifesto appareat eundem actum esse nullum aut alia ex gravi causa sustineri non posse aut condiciones in ipso actu administrativo appositas non esse adimpletas; si tamen actus administrativi exsecutio adiunctorum personae aut loci ratione videatur inopportuna, exsecutor exsecutionem intermittat; quibus in casibus statim certiorem faciat auctoritatem quae actum edidit.

Canon 42. The executor of an administrative act must proceed in accordance with the mandate. If, however, the executor has not fulfilled essential conditions attached to
the document, or has not observed the substantial form of procedure, the execution is invalid.

Exsecutor actus administrativi procedere debet ad mandati normam; si autem condiciones essentiales in litteris appositas non impleverit ac substantialem procedendi formam non servaverit, irrita est exsecutio.

Canon 43. The executor of an administrative act may in his prudent judgement substitute another for himself, unless substitution has been forbidden, or he has been deliberately chosen as the only person to be executor, or a specific person has been designated as substitute; however, in these cases the executor may commit the preparatory acts to another.

Actus administrativi exsecutor potest alium pro suo prudenti arbitrio sibi substituere, nisi substitutio prohibita fuerit, aut electa industria personae, aut substituti persona praefinita; hisce autem in casibus exsecutori licet alteri committere actus praeparatorios.

Canon 44. An administrative act can also be executed by the executor’s successor in office, unless the first had been chosen deliberately as the only person to be executor.

Actus administrativus exsecutioni mandari potest etiam ab exsecutoris successore in officio, nisi fuerit electa industria personae.

Canon 45. If there has been any error in the execution of an administrative act, the executor may execute it again.

Exsecutori fas est, si quoquo modo in actus administrativi exsecutione erraverit, eundem actum iterum exsecutioni mandare.

Canon 46. An administrative act does not cease on the expiry of the authority of the person issuing it, unless the law expressly provides otherwise.

Actus administrativus non cessat resoluto iure statuentis, nisi aliud iure expresse caveatur.

Canon 47. The revocation of an administrative act by another administrative act of the competent authority takes effect only from the moment at which the person to whom it was issued is lawfully notified.

Revocatio actus administrativi per alium actum administrativum auctoritatis competentis effectum tantummodo obtinet a momento, quo legitime notificatur personae pro qua datus est.

Canon 48. A singular decree is an administrative act issued by a competent executive authority, whereby in accordance with the norms of law a decision is given or a provision made for a particular case; of its nature this decision or provision does not presuppose that a petition has been made by anyone.

Decretum singulare intellegitur actus administrativus a competenti auctoritate exsecutiva editus, quo secundum iuris normas pro casu particulari datur decisio aut fit provisio, quae natura sua petitionem ab aliquo factam non supponunt.

Canon 49. A singular precept is a decree by which an obligation is directly and lawfully imposed on a specific person or persons to do or to omit something, especially in order to urge the observance of a law.

Praeceptum singulare est decretum quo personae aut personis determinatis aliquid faciendum aut omittendum directe et legitime imponitur, praesertim ad legis observantiam urgendam.

Canon 50. Before issuing a singular decree, the person in authority is to seek the necessary information and proof and, as far as possible, is to consult those whose rights could be harmed.

Antequam decretum singulare ferat, auctoritas necessarias notitias et probationes exquirat, atque, quantum fieri potest, eos audiat quorum iura laedi possint.

Canon 51. A decree is to be issued in writing. When it is a decision, it should express, at least in summary form, the reasons for the decision.

Decretum scripto feratur expressis, saltem summarie, si agatur de decisione, motivis.

Canon 52. A singular decree has effect in respect only of those matters it determines and of those persons to whom it was issued; it obliges such persons everywhere, unless it is otherwise clear.

Decretum singulare vim habet tantum quoad res de quibus et pro personis quibus datum est; eas vero ubique obligat, nisi aliud constet.

Canon 53. If decrees are contrary one to another, where specific matters are expressed, the specific prevails over the general; if both are equally specific or equally general, the one later in time abrogates the earlier insofar as it is contrary to it.

Si decreta inter se sint contraria, peculiare, in iis quae peculiariter exprimuntur, praevalet generali; si aeque sint peculiaria aut generalia, posterius tempore obrogat priori, quatenus ei contrarium est.

Canon 54. §1 A singular decree whose application is entrusted to an executor, has effect from the moment of execution; otherwise, from the moment when it is made known to the person on the authority of the one who issued it.

§2 For a singular decree to be enforceable, it must be made known by a lawful document in accordance with the law.

§1. Decretum singulare, cuius applicatio committitur exsecutori, effectum habet a momento exsecutionis; secus a momento quo personae auctoritate ipsius decernentis intimatur.

§2. Decretum singulare, ut urgeri possit, legitimo documento ad normam iuris intimandum est.

Canon 55. Without prejudice to cann. 37 and 51, whenever a very grave reason prevents the handing over of the written text of a decree, the decree is deemed to have been made known if it is read to the person to whom it is directed, in the presence of a notary or two witnesses- a record of the occasion is to be drawn up and signed by all present.

Firmo praescripto can. 37 et 51, cum gravissima ratio obstet ne scriptus decreti textus tradatur, decretum intimatum habetur si ei, cui destinatur, coram notario vel duobus testibus legatur, actis redactis, ab omnibus praesentibus subscribendis.

Canon 56. A decree is deemed to have been made known if the person to whom it is directed has been duly summoned to receive or to hear the decree, and without a just reason has not appeared or has refused to sign.

Decretum pro intimato habetur, si is cui destinatur, rite vocatus ad decretum accipiendum vel audiendum, sine iusta causa non comparuerit vel subscribere recusaverit.

Canon 57. §1 Whenever the law orders a decree to be issued, or when a person who is concerned lawfully requests a decree or has recourse to obtain one, the competent authority is to provide for the situation within three months of having received the petition or recourse, unless a different period of time is prescribed by law.

§2 If this period of time has expired and the decree has not yet been given, then as far as proposing a further recourse is concerned, the reply is presumed to be negative.

§3 A presumed negative reply does not relieve the competent authority of the obligation of issuing the decree, and, in accordance with can. 128, of repairing any harm done.

§1. Quoties lex iubeat decretum ferri vel ab eo, cuius interest, petitio vel recursus ad decretum obtinendum legitime proponatur, auctoritas competens intra tres menses a recepta petitione vel recursu provideat, nisi alius terminus lege praescribatur.

§2. Hoc termino transacto, si decretum nondum datum fuerit, responsum praesumitur negativum, ad propositionem ulterioris recursus quod attinet.

§3. Responsum negativum praesumptum non eximit competentem auctoritatem ab obligatione decretum ferendi, immo et damnum forte illatum, ad normam can. 128, reparandi.

Canon 58. §1 A singular decree ceases to have force when it is lawfully revoked by the competent authority, or when the law ceases for whose execution it was issued.

§2 A singular precept, which was not imposed by a lawful document, ceases on the expiry of the authority of the person who issued it.

§1. Decretum singulare vim habere desinit legitima revocatione ab auctoritate competenti facta necnon cessante lege ad cuius exsecutionem datum est.

§2. Praeceptum singulare, legitimo documento non impositum, cessat resoluto iure praecipientis.

Canon 59. §1 A rescript is an administrative act issued in writing by a competent authority, by which of its very nature a privilege, dispensation or other favour is granted at someone’s request.

§2 Unless it is otherwise established, provisions laid down concerning rescripts apply also to the granting of permission and to the granting of favours by word of mouth.

§1. Rescriptum intellegitur actus administrativus a competenti auctoritate exsecutiva in scriptis elicitus, quo suapte natura, ad petitionem alicuius, conceditur privilegium, dispensatio aliave gratia.

§2. Quae de rescriptis statuuntur praescripta, etiam de licentiae concessione necnon de concessionibus gratiarum vivae vocis oraculo valent, nisi aliud constet.

Canon 60. Any rescript can be obtained by all who are not expressly prohibited.

Rescriptum quodlibet impetrari potest ab omnibus qui expresse non prohibentur.

Canon 61. Unless it is otherwise established, a rescript can be obtained for another, even without that person’s consent, and it is valid before its acceptance, without prejudice to contrary clauses.

Nisi aliud constet, rescriptum impetrari potest pro alio, etiam praeter eius assensum, et valet ante eiusdem acceptationem, salvis clausulis contrariis.

Canon 62. A rescript in which there is no executor, has effect from the moment the document was issued; the others have effect from the moment of execution.

Rescriptum in quo nullus datur exsecutor, effectum habet a momento quo datae sunt litterae; cetera, a momento exsecutionis.

Canon 63. §1 Except where there is question of a rescript which grants a favour Motu proprio, subreption, that is, the withholding of the truth, renders a rescript invalid if the request does not express that which, according to canonical law, style and practice, must for validity be expressed.

§2 Obreption, that is, the making of a false statement, renders a rescript invalid if not even one of the motivating reasons submitted is true.

§3 In rescripts of which there is no executor, the motivating reason must be true at the time the rescript is issued; in the others, at the time of execution.

§1. Validitati rescripti obstat subreptio seu reticentia veri, si in precibus expressa non fuerint quae secundum legem, stilum et praxim canonicam ad validitatem sunt exprimenda, nisi agatur de rescripto gratiae, quod Motu proprio darum sit.

§2. Item validitati rescripti obstat obreptio seu expositio falsi, si ne una quidem causa motiva proposita sit vera.

§3. Causa motiva in rescriptis quorum nullus est exsecutor, vera sit oportet tempore quo rescriptum datum est; in ceteris, tempore exsecutionis.

Canon 64. Without prejudice to the right of the Penitentiary for the internal forum, a favour refused by any department of the Roman Curia cannot validly be granted by another department of the same Curia, or by any other competent authority below the Roman Pontiff, without the approval of the department which was first approached.

Salvo iure Paenitentiariae pro foro interno, gratia a quovis dicasterio Romanae Curiae denegata, valide ab alio eiusdem Curiae dicasterio aliave competenti auctoritate infra Romanum Pontificem concedi nequit, sine assensu dicasterii quocum agi coeptum est.

Canon 65. §1 Without prejudice to the provisions of §§2 and 3, no one is to seek from another Ordinary a favour which was refused by that person’s proper Ordinary, unless mention is made of the refusal. When the refusal is mentioned, the Ordinary is not to grant the favour unless he has learned from the former Ordinary the reasons for the refusal.

§2 A favour refused by a Vicar general or an episcopal Vicar cannot be validly granted by another Vicar of the same Bishop, even when he has learned from the Vicar who refused the reasons for the refusal.

§3 A favour refused by a Vicar general or an episcopal Vicar and later, without any mention being made of this refusal, obtained from the diocesan Bishop, is invalid. A favour refused by the diocesan Bishop cannot, without the Bishop’s consent, validly be obtained from his Vicar general or episcopal Vicar, even though mention is made of the refusal.

§1. Salvis praescriptis §§2 et 3, nemo gratiam a proprio Ordinario denegatam ab alio Ordinario petat, nisi facta denegationis mentione, facta autem mentione, Ordinarius gratiam ne concedat, nisi habitis a priore Ordinario denegationis rationibus.

§2. Gratia a Vicario generali vel a Vicario episcopali denegata, ab alio Vicario eiusdem Episcopi, etiam habitis a Vicario denegante denegationis rationibus, valide concedi nequit.

§3. Gratia a Vicario generali vel a Vicario episcopali denegata et postea, nulla facta huius denegationis mentione, ab Episcopo dioecesano impetrata, invalida est; gratia autem ab Episcopo dioecesano denegata nequit valide, etiam facta denegationis mentione, ab eius Vicario generali vel Vicario episcopali, non consentiente Episcopo, impetrari.

Canon 66. A rescript is not rendered invalid because of an error in the name of the person to whom it is given or by whom it is issued, or of the place in which such person resides, or of the matter concerned, provided that in the judgement of the Ordinary there is no doubt about the person or the matter in question.

Rescriptum non fit irritum ob errorem in nomine personae cui datur vel a qua editur, aut loci in quo ipsa residet, aut rei de qua agitur, dummodo iudicio Ordinarii nulla sit de ipsa persona vel de re dubitatio.

Canon 67. §1 If it should happen that two contrary rescripts are obtained for one and the same thing, where specific matters are expressed, the specific prevails over the general.

§2 If both are equally specific or equally general, the one earlier in time prevails over the later, unless in the later one there is an express mention of the earlier, or unless the person who first obtained the rescript has not used it by reason of deceit or of notable personal negligence.

§3 In doubt as to whether a rescript is invalid or not, recourse is to be made to the issuing authority.

§1. Si contingat ut de una eademque re duo rescripta inter se contraria impetrentur, peculiare, in iis quae peculiariter exprimuntur, praevalet generali.

§2. Si sint aeque peculiaria aut generalia, prius tempore praevalet posteriori, nisi in altero fiat mentio expressa de priore, aut nisi prior impetrator dolo vel notabili neglegentia sua rescripto usus non fuerit.

§3. In dubio num rescriptum irritum sit necne, recurratur ad rescribentem.

Canon 68. A rescript of the Apostolic See in which there is no executor must be presented to the Ordinary of the person who obtains it only when this is prescribed in the rescript, or when there is question of public affairs, or when it is necessary to have the conditions verified.

Rescriptum Sedis Apostolicae in quo nullus datur exsecutor, tunc tantum debet Ordinario impetrantis praesentari, cum id in iisdem litteris praecipitur, aut de rebus agitur publicis, aut comprobari condiciones oportet.

Canon 69. A rescript for whose presentation no time is determined, may be submitted to the executor at any time, provided there is no fraud or deceit.

Rescriptum, cuius praesentationi nullum est definitum tempus, potest exsecutori exhiberi quovis tempore, modo absit fraus et dolus.

Canon 70. If in a rescript the very granting of the favour is entrusted to the executor, it is a matter for the executor’s prudent judgement and conscience to grant or to refuse the favour.

Si in rescripto ipsa concessio exsecutori committatur, ipsius est pro suo prudenti arbitrio et conscientia gratiam concedere vel denegare.

Canon 71. No one is obliged to use a rescript granted in his or her favour only, unless bound by a canonical obligation from another source to do so .

Nemo uti tenetur rescripto in sui dumtaxat favorem concesso, nisi aliunde obligatione canonica ad hoc teneatur.

Canon 72. Rescripts granted by the Apostolic See which have expired, can for a just reason be extended by the diocesan Bishop, but once only and not beyond three months.

Rescripta ab Apostolica Sede concessa, quae exspiraverint, ab Episcopo dioecesano iusta de causa semel prorogari possunt, non tamen ultra tres menses.

Canon 73. No rescripts are revoked by a contrary law, unless it is otherwise provided in the law itself.

Per legem contrariam nulla rescripta revocantur, nisi aliud in ipsa lege caveatur.

Canon 74. Although one who has been granted a favour orally may use it in the internal forum, that person is obliged to prove the favour for the external forum whenever this is lawfully requested.

Quamvis gratia oretenus sibi concessa quis in foro interno uti possit, tenetur illam pro foro externo probare, quoties id legitime ab eo petatur.

Canon 75. If a rescript contains a privilege or a dispensation, the provision of the following canons are also to be observed.

Si rescriptum contineat privilegium vel dispensationem, serventur insuper praescripta canonum qui sequuntur.

Canon 76. §1 A privilege is a favour given by a special act for the benefit of certain persons, physical or juridical; it can be granted by the legislator, and by an executive authority to whom the legislator has given this power.

§2 Centennial or immemorial possession of a privilege gives rise to the presumption that it has been granted.

§1. Privilegium, seu gratia in favorem certarum personarum sive physicarum sive iuridicarum per peculiarem actum facta, concedi potest a legislatore necnon ab auctoritate exsecutiva cui legislator hanc potestatem concesserit.

§2. Possessio centenaria vel immemorabilis praesumptionem inducit concessi privilegii.

Canon 77. A privilege is to be interpreted in accordance with can. 36 §1. The interpretation must, however, always be such that the beneficiaries of the privilege do in fact receive some favour.

Privilegium interpretandum est ad normam can. 36, §1; sed ea semper adhibenda est interpretatio, qua privilegio aucti aliquam revera gratiam consequantur.

Canon 78. §1 A privilege is presumed to be perpetual, unless the contrary is proved.

§2 A personal privilege, namely one which attaches to a person, is extinguished with the person.

§3 A real privilege ceases on the total destruction of the thing or place; a local privilege, however, revives if the place is restored within fifty years.

§1. Privilegium praesumitur perpetuum, nisi contrarium probetur.

§2. Privilegium personale, quod scilicet personam sequitur, cum ipsa extinguitur.

§3. Privilegium reale cessat per absolutum rei vel loci interitum; privilegium vero locale, si locus intra quinquaginta annos restituatur, reviviscit.

Canon 79. Without prejudice to can. 46, a privilege ceases by revocation on the part of the competent authority in accordance with can. 47.

Privilegium cessat per revocationem competentis auctoritatis ad normam can. 47, firmo praescripto can. 81.

Canon 80. §1 No privilege ceases by renunciation unless this has been accepted by the competent authority.

§2 Any physical person may renounce a privilege granted in his or her favour only.

§3 Individual persons cannot renounce a privilege granted to a juridical person, or granted by reason of the dignity of a place or thing. Nor can a juridical person renounce a privilege granted to it, if the renunciation would be prejudicial to the Church or to others.

§1. Nullum privilegium per renuntiationem cessat, nisi haec a competenti auctoritate fuerit acceptata.

§2. Privilegio in sui dumtaxat favorem concesso quaevis persona physica renuntiare potest.

§3. Privilegio concesso alicui personae iuridicae, aut ratione dignitatis loci vel rei, singulae personae renuntiare nequeunt; nec ipsi personae iuridicae integrum est privilegio sibi concesso renuntiare, si renuntiatio cedat in Ecclesiae aliorumve praeiudicium.

Canon 81. A privilege is not extinguished on the expiry of the authority of the person who granted it, unless it was given with the clause ‘at our pleasure’ or another equivalent expression.

Resoluto iure concedentis, privilegium non extinguitur, nisi datum fuerit cum clausula "ad beneplacitum nostrum" vel alia aequipollenti.

Canon 82. A privilege which does not burden others does not lapse through non-use or contrary use; if it does cause an inconvenience for others, it is lost if lawful prescription intervenes.

Per non usum vel per usum contrarium privilegium aliis haud onerosum non cessat; quod vero in aliorum gravamen cedit, amittitur, si accedat legitima praescriptio.

Canon 83. §1 Without prejudice to can. 142 §2, a privilege ceases on the expiry of the time or the completion of the number of cases for which it was granted.

§2 It ceases also if in the judgement of the competent authority circumstances are so changed with the passage of time that it has become harmful, or that its use becomes unlawful.

§1. Cessat privilegium elapso tempore vel expleto numero casuum pro quibus concessum fuit, firmo praescripto can. 142, §2.

§2. Cessat quoque, si temporis progressu rerum adiuncta ita iudicio auctoritatis competentis immutata sint, ut noxium evaserit aut eius usus illicitus fiat.

Canon 84. A person who abuses a power given by a privilege deserves to be deprived of the privilege itself. Accordingly, after a warning which has been in vain, the Ordinary, if it was he who granted it, is to deprive the person of the privilege which he or she is gravely abusing; if the privilege has been granted by the Apostolic See, the Ordinary is obliged to make the matter known to it.

Qui abutitur potestate sibi ex privilegio data, privilegio ipso privari meretur; quare, Ordinarius, frustra monito privilegiario, graviter abutentem privet privilegio quod ipse concessit; quod si privilegium concessum fuerit ab Apostolica Sede, eandem Ordinarius certiorem facere tenetur.

Canon 85. A dispensation, that is, the relaxation of a merely ecclesiastical law in a particular case, can be granted, within the limits of their competence, by those who have executive power, and by those who either explicitly or implicitly have the power of dispensing, whether by virtue of the law itself or by lawful delegation.

Dispensatio, seu legis mere ecclesiasticae in casu particulari relaxatio, concedi potest ab iis qui potestate gaudent exsecutiva intra limites suae competentiae, necnon ab illis quibus potestas dispensandi explicite vel implicite competit sive ipso iure sive vi legitimae delegationis.

Canon 86. In so far as laws define those elements which are essentially constitutive of institutes or of juridical acts, they are not subject to dispensation.

Dispensationi obnoxiae non sunt leges quatenus ea definiunt, quae institutorum aut actuum iuridicorum essentialiter sunt constitutiva.

Canon 87. §1 Whenever he judges that it contributes to their spiritual welfare, the diocesan Bishop can dispense the faithful from disciplinary laws, both universal laws and those particular laws made by the supreme ecclesiastical authority for his territory or his subjects. He cannot dispense from procedural laws or from penal laws, nor from those whose dispensation is specially reserved to the Apostolic See or to some other authority.
[NB see Authentic Interpretation of canon 87 §1, 5.VII.1985]

§2 If recourse to the Holy See is difficult, and at the same time there is danger of grave harm in delay, any Ordinary can dispense from these laws, even if the dispensation is reserved to the Holy See, provided the dispensation is one which the Holy See customarily grants in the same circumstances, and without prejudice to can.
291.

§1. Episcopus dioecesanus fideles, quoties id ad eorundem spirituale bonum conferre iudicet, dispensare valet in legibus disciplinaribus tam universalibus quam particularibus pro suo territorio vel suis subditis a suprema Ecclesiae auctoritate latis, non tamen in legibus processualibus aut poenalibus, nec in iis quarum dispensatio Apostolicae Sedi aliive auctoritati specialiter reservatur.

§2. Si difficilis sit recursus ad Sanctam Sedem et simul in mora sit periculum gravis damni, Ordinarius quicumque dispensare valet in iisdem legibus, etiam si dispensatio reservatur Sanctae Sedi, dummodo agatur de dispensatione quam ipsa in iisdem adiunctis concedere solet, firmo praescripto can. 291.

Canon 88. The local Ordinary can dispense from diocesan laws and, whenever he judges that it contributes to the spiritual welfare of the faithful, from laws made by a plenary or a provincial Council or by the Episcopal Conference.

Ordinarius loci in legibus dioecesanis atque, quoties id ad fidelium bonum conferre iudicet, in legibus a Concilio plenario vel provinciali aut ab Episcoporum conferentia latis dispensare valet.

Canon 89. Parish priests and other priests or deacons cannot dispense from universal or particular law unless this power is expressly granted to them.

Parochus aliique presbyteri aut diaconi a lege universali et particulari dispensare non valent, nisi haec potestas ipsis expresse concessa sit.

Canon 90. §1 A dispensation from an ecclesiastical law is not to be given without a just and reasonable cause, taking into account the circumstances of the case and the importance of the law from which the dispensation is given; otherwise the dispensation is unlawful and, unless given by the legislator or his superior, it is also invalid.

§2 A dispensation given in doubt about the sufficiency of its reason is valid and lawful.

§1. A lege ecclesiastica ne dispensetur sine iusta et rationabili causa, habita ratione adiunctorum casus et gravitatis legis a qua dispensatur; alias dispensatio illicita est, nisi ab ipso legislatore eiusve superiore data sit, etiam invalida.

§2. Dispensatio in dubio de sufficientia causae valide et licite conceditur.

Canon 91. In respect of their subjects, even if these are outside the territory, those who have the power of dispensing can exercise it even if they themselves are outside their territory; unless the contrary is expressly provided, they can exercise it also in respect of peregrini actually present in the territory; they can exercise it too in respect of themselves.

Qui gaudet potestate dispensandi eam exercere valet, etiam extra territorium exsistens, in subditos, licet e territorio absentes, atque, nisi contrarium expresse statuatur, in peregrinos quoque in territorio actu degentes, necnon erga seipsum.

Canon 92. A strict interpretation is to be given not only to a dispensation in accordance with can. 36 §1, but also to the very power of dispensing granted for a specific case.

Strictae subest interpretationi non solum dispensatio ad normam can. 36, §1, sed ipsamet potestas dispensandi ad certum casum concessa.

Canon 93. A dispensation capable of successive applications ceases in the same way as a privilege. It also ceases by the certain and complete cessation of the motivating reason.

Dispensatio quae tractum habet successivum cessat iisdem modis quibus privilegium, necnon certa ac totali cessatione causae motivae.