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The eighth advice. No Christian man or woman, neither by service nor for any other cause, may presume to dwell with Jews under the penalty of excommunication. This is from the Concilium Latranense Lateran Council under Alexander III. It is placed in the Extra de Iudaeis Decretals regarding the Jews, chapter 1, where the text says: Jews or Saracens, neither under the pretext of feeding their own children, nor for service, nor for any other cause whatever, may have or permit to be had Christian servants in their houses. And the gloss placed there says that the Church does not judge those who are outside in order to inflict spiritual punishment, unless in the stated cases. However, it does judge them in certain cases: just as it repels Jews from the communion of Christians, just as it repels them from legitimate acts, just as also from public offices. Thus, they may not buy Christian servants, nor build synagogues, nor raise laments on certain days, so that they pay tithes, nor circumcise Christian servants, nor take anything from a Christian's will. The gloss composes all these. The text adds: But also, let those Christians be excommunicated who presume to live with them. If any Jew thereafter, with God inspiring them, converts to the Christian faith, they must not be excluded from their possessions in any way, since it is fitting that those converted to the faith be of a better condition than they were before they accepted the faith, and thus they should be held. The gloss notes: Unless they are from usury, which they are bound to sell and restore the money. The text adds: But if it has been done with the princes or the powers of those same places, we enjoin them under the penalty of excommunication to cause the whole portion of their inheritance and goods to be exhibited to him. The gloss says there: It is an argument that the Church can compel a secular judge to do justice, especially by reason of the faith, also in any case where he is negligent in doing justice. And upon the word "whole," the gloss says: Even their own possessions that preceded them in the faith, which they will not recover. For that eighth advice, there is also chapter "Ad haec" in the same title, where the same Alexander says: You are to forbid all Christians who are in your jurisdiction, and if it is necessary, through distraint and appeals, that they do not expose themselves constantly to the service of the Jews for any reward, which also stands against the food or "prevents the prohibition of their food"...