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Canon 1405. Previous Next | §1. It is solely the right of the Roman Pontiff himself to judge in the cases mentioned in can. 1401:
1. those who hold the highest civil office of a state; 2. cardinals; 3. legates of the Apostolic See and, in penal cases, bishops; 4. other cases which he has called to his own judgment. §2. A judge cannot review an act or instrument confirmed specifically (*in forma specifica*) by the Roman Pontiff without his prior mandate. §3. Judgment of the following is reserved to the Roman Rota: 1. bishops in contentious matters, without prejudice to the prescript of can. 1419, §2; 2. an abbot primate or abbot superior of a monastic congregation and a supreme moderator of religious institutes of pontifical right; 3. dioceses or other physical or juridic ecclesiastical persons which do not have a superior below the Roman Pontiff. |
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