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Sanctions in the Church » Offenses and Penalties in General » The Subject Liable to Penal Sanctions
Canon 1326. §1 A judge must inflict a more serious punishment than that prescribed in the law or precept when:

1° a person, after being condemned, or after the penalty has been declared, continues so to offend that obstinate ill will may prudently be concluded from the circumstances;

2° a person who is established in some position of dignity, or who, in order to commit a crime, has abused a position of authority or an office;

3° a person who, after a penalty for a culpable offence was constituted, foresaw the event but nevertheless omitted to take the precautions to avoid it which any careful person would have taken;

4° a person who committed an offence in a state of drunkenness or other mental disturbance, if these were deliberately sought so as to commit the offence or to excuse it, or through passion which was deliberately stimulated or nourished.

§2 In the cases mentioned in §1, if the penalty constituted is latae sententiae, another penalty or a penance may be added.

§3 In the same cases, if the penalty constituted is discretionary, it becomes obligatory.

§1. Iudex gravius punire debet quam lex vel praeceptum statuit:

1° eum, qui post condemnationem vel poenae declarationem ita delinquere pergit, ut ex adiunctis prudenter eius pertinacia in mala voluntate conici possit;

2° eum, qui in dignitate aliqua constitutus est, vel qui auctoritate aut officio abusus est ad delictum patrandum;

3° eum, qui, cum poena in delictum culposum constituta sit, eventum praevidit et nihilominus cautiones ad eum vitandum omisit, quas diligens quilibet adhibuisset;

4° eum, qui deliquerit in statu ebrietatis aliusve mentis perturbationis, quae sint de industria ad delictum patrandum vel excusandum quaesitae, aut ob passionem voluntarie excitatam vel nutritam.

§2. In casibus, de quibus in§1, si poena constituta sit latae sententiae, alia poena addi potest vel paenitentia.

§3. In iisdem casibus, si poena constituta sit ut facultativa, fit obligatoria.
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