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Canon 1315. Previous Next	§1 Whoever has power to issue penal laws may also reinforce a divine law with a fitting penalty. §2 A lower legislator, taking into account can. 1317, can also: 1° reinforce with a fitting penalty a law issued by a higher authority, observing the limits of his competence in respect of territory or persons; 2° add other penalties to those laid down for a certain offence in a universal law; 3° determine or make obligatory a penalty which a universal law establishes as indeterminate or discretionary. §3 A law can either itself determine the penalty or leave its determination to the prudent decision of a judge.

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Sanctions in the Church » Offenses and Penalties in General » Penal Law and Penal Precept

§1 Whoever has power to issue penal laws may also reinforce a divine law with a fitting penalty.

§2 A lower legislator, taking into account can. 1317, can also:

1° reinforce with a fitting penalty a law issued by a higher authority, observing the limits of his competence in respect of territory or persons;

2° add other penalties to those laid down for a certain offence in a universal law;

3° determine or make obligatory a penalty which a universal law establishes as indeterminate or discretionary.

§3 A law can either itself determine the penalty or leave its determination to the prudent decision of a judge.

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