Extravagantes

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

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 XXII., and the common Extravagantes. The first contain twenty epistles, decretals, or constitutions of that pope, divided under fifteen titles, without any subdivision Into books. The others are epistles, decretals, or constitutions of the popes who occupied the holy see either before or after John XXII. They are divided into books, like the decretals. EXTREMIS (Lat. in extremity). When a person is sick beyond the hope of recovery, and near death, he is said to be in extremis. A will made in this condition, if made without undue influence, by a person of souud mind, is valid. As to the effect of declarations of persons in extremis, see Dying Declarations; Declarations.

In canon law. Those decretal epistles which were published after the Clementines. They were so called because at first they were not digested or arranged with the other papal constitutions, but seemed to be, as It were, detached from the canon law, They continued to be called by the same name when they were atter- Wards inserted in the body of the canon law. The first extravagantes are those of Pope John XXII., successor of Clement V. The last collection was brought down to the year 1483, and was called the “Common Extravagantes,” notwithstanding that they were likewise incorporated with the rest of the canonlaw. Enc. Lond.

Lat, In the canon law. The title of the papal constitutions and decretal epistles of Pope John