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Sanctions in the Church » Offenses and Penalties in General » Penal Law and Penal Precept
Canon 1315. §1 Whoever has power to issue penal laws may also reinforce a divine law with a fitting penalty.

§2 A lower legislator, taking into account can. 1317, can also:

1° reinforce with a fitting penalty a law issued by a higher authority, observing the limits of his competence in respect of territory or persons;

2° add other penalties to those laid down for a certain offence in a universal law;

3° determine or make obligatory a penalty which a universal law establishes as indeterminate or discretionary.

§3 A law can either itself determine the penalty or leave its determination to the prudent decision of a judge.

§1. Qui potestatem habet leges poenales ferendi, potest etiam legem divinam congrua poena munire.

§2. Legislator inferior, attento can. 1317, potest insuper:

1° legem a superiore auctoritate latam congrua poena munire, servatis competentiae limitibus ratione territorii vel personarum;

2° poenis lege universali in aliquod delictum constitutis alias poenas addere;3° poenam lege universali constitutam ut indeterminatam vel facultativam determinare aut obligatoriam reddere.

§3. Lex ipsa potest poenam determinare vel prudenti iudicis aestimationi determinandam relinquere.
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