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XXIIII.
That can be asked today both elegantly and not without reason. Since the limitation of the benefit of restitution begins from the 26th year of age, and those times are counted exactly, if that decade was expunged by the calendar calculation corrected by Gregory XIII, should a minor, born in previous years in which nothing was expunged, be granted further indulgence from the year following the full age?
XXV.
I conclude that indulgence should be granted, although no one has said so before; nor is it a hindrance that this new, as it is commonly called, Calendar has been approved and received in the greater part of Europe.
XXVI.
Contumacy is a crime for soldiers in every case. Whence it happens that it is almost not the same for civilians.
XXVII.
Which fact furthermore makes it so that perhaps it is not badly maintained that a person banned for contumacy arising from a civil case cannot be killed. Nor am I unaware that it is pronounced otherwise in the Imperial Chamber.
XXVIII.
That a mute by accident, who is ignorant of letters, does not have the capacity to make a will, is not in doubt. We shall see whether he can donate by reason of death. And that he can, does not seem unreasonable; in which I also acquiesce.
XXIX.
What has been said so far comes into judgment and actions, by which, for the sake of whom people are either in charge, or act, or finally are sued.
XXX.
That a judge cannot speak the law above his jurisdiction, and if he does so, he should not go unpunished, has no doubt. Hence arises that question: must exempted persons, when summoned, appear before the judge of the territory, and oppose the declinatory privilege of the forum? That it is closer to the truth is taught by Pope Boniface.