Theses de pignorationibus

as well as to a usufructuary One who has the right to use and enjoy the profits of property belonging to another. in a matter of which they have the usufruct, if disturbed, it is permitted to act based on this Constitution.

X.
Sometimes, however, when a vassal is disturbed, the action also belongs to the lord of the fief himself.

XI.
Nor is an action based on this Constitution denied to a city for its own citizen who has been pledged and captured.

XII.
Provided that the city itself is primarily offended by this pignoration, otherwise it is different.

XIII.
By this Constitution, not only the pignorator The one performing the seizure. himself, but also the person by whose mandate the pignoration was made, is held liable.

XIV.
It is asked whether the Chapter or College of a Cathedral Church can be summoned to the Chamber regarding a pignoration that has been committed. We assert that they can.

XV.
Provided they are of the number of those which, by special privilege (commonly das freye Keyserliche Stifft sein they are free Imperial foundations), are immediately subject to the Empire in secular matters.

XVI.
Controversies regarding pignorations are usually only decided and defined in the Imperial Chamber.

XVII.
Nor is the exception of the Ordinance der Auftrag the mandate/order or any other privilege admitted.

XVIII.
Whether the exception of subjection suspends the compliance, it has been doubted several times.

XIX.
More frequently, however, it has been decided that, notwithstanding the exception of subjection,