Canon 199. The following are not affected by prescription:

1° rights and obligations which are of divine law, whether natural or positive;

2° rights which can be obtained only by apostolic privilege;

3° rights and obligations which bear directly on the spiritual life of Christ’s faithful;

4° the certain and undisputed boundaries of ecclesiastical territories;

5° Mass offerings and obligations;

6° the provision of an ecclesiastical office which, in accordance with the law, requires the exercise of a sacred order;

7° the right of visitation and the obligation of obedience, so that Christ’s faithful could not be visited by an ecclesiastical authority and would no longer be subject to any authority.

Praescriptioni obnoxia non sunt:

1° iura et obligationes quae sunt legis divinae naturalis aut positivae;

2° iura quae obtineri possunt ex solo privilegio apostolico;

3° iura et obligationes quae spiritualem christifidelium vitam directe respiciunt;

4° fines certi et indubii circumscriptionum ecclesiasticarum;

5° stipes et onera Missarum;

6° provisio officii ecclesiastici quod ad normam iuris exercitium ordinis sacri requirit;

7° ius visitationis et obligatio oboedientiae, ita ut christifideles a nulla auctoritate ecclesiastica visitari possint et nulli auctoritati iam subsint.