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General Norms » Singular Administrative Acts » Privileges
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.

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