Extravagantes
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In canon law. The name given to the constitutions of the popes posterior to the Clementines. They are thus called, quasi vagantes extra corpus juris, to express that they were out of the canonical law, which at first contained only the decrees of Gratian. Afterwards the Decretals of Gregory IX., the Sexte of Boniface VIII., the Clementines, and at last the Extravagantes, were added to it. There are the Extravagantes of John