[Modus vacandi beneficiorum]

¶ Item, the benefices of all those who celebrate in an interdicted place or in the presence of an excommunicate are vacant; however, they must be declared so by a judge, otherwise they do not become vacant.
¶ Item, if anyone holds a benefice with care or without care and is subsequently promoted to bishop or abbot, the benefices become vacant: if to a bishop, by the rite of consecration; if to an abbot, by the rite of benediction.
¶ Item, if anyone holds an ecclesiastical benefice and dies in the Roman Curia or within two legal days’ travel from the Curia, his benefices are reserved to the Apostolic See.
¶ Item, if anyone holds a benefice with care or any dignity and is not twenty-four years of age, his benefice becomes vacant unless a dispensation has been obtained regarding this.
¶ Item, through promotion: as if someone should be promoted to holy orders while bound by a sentence of major excommunication, his benefices become vacant ipso facto.
¶ Item, through promotion, as if someone should be promoted