in the letters obtained. We must note that the persons expressed in the rescripts ought to be more worthy, or at least equal, to those who are included in the general clause; the same is understood regarding things specifically expressed versus those generally expressed. ¶ Also, several causes are committed through a rescript, but not all. ¶ Also, no one ought to be expressed principally unless they are to be convened. ¶ Also, letters obtained through malice or falsehood are not valid.

Case: A certain priest for his fellows obtained letters to certain judges against the Abbot of Bec. Those judges cited the Abbot, before whom the said priest did not wish to respond. Afterwards, he obtained other letters against the Abbot to other judges who are named in the superscription, without mention having been made of the former. When they had cited the Abbot, the Abbot proposed before them that he was not bound to respond to the said priest by those letters because he had been summoned to judgment by other letters which had not been revoked by the subsequent ones. The judges asked the Lord Pope what the law is. He, considering that fraud and deceit ought not to patronize anyone, replies that the priest ought to lack the advantage of both letters because he fraudulently obtained them for the same business to different judges. ¶ Note that a rescript is perpetuated through the sole citation, and that the same cause ought not to be committed to different judges. ¶ Also, in that in which one sinned, in that he will be punished.

The Apostolic See

Case is under this form: "Complainant Titius of Peter and certain others regarding tithes and other things." Such petitioners designated [those things], and they convened more worthy persons and regarding greater matters through the general clause to obtain letters more easily, and they omitted lesser matters. It was asked whether they could. The Pope, wishing to obstruct the malice of men, decreed that if lesser and viler persons are only mentioned in the omissions, the greater and more worthy are not understood to be included under the general clause, and thus they cannot be convened. But not even a wild multitude can be convened in judgment through such generality. Those who made mention only of lesser and lighter matters should by no means be heard regarding greater and more serious ones. Afterwards, he says that if someone expressed certain persons in the commission not because he wishes to convene them but so that he could pass to equals or to lesser ones, because fraud or deceit ought not to patronize him, let such a lying petitioner lack the favor of what he obtained.

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