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to holy orders while bound by a sentence of minor excommunication, his benefices become vacant ipso facto.
¶ Item, through non-promotion or non-residence: as when a benefice, by virtue of its office or foundation, requires residence or personal stay, and if a dispensation for that non-residence has not been obtained, all such benefices become vacant. And this case happens frequently in benefices that are of the right of lay patronage. And it happens when a benefice, by office or foundation, requires a priest or one who is able to proceed to holy orders within a year; collators sometimes confer it upon one who obtains a dispensation under the condition that, as soon as he reaches the years of discretion, he shall be promoted and shall reside personally in the benefice, and if he does not do this, the benefice becomes vacant.
¶ Item, they become vacant through simoniacal perversity or by an agreement intervening in exchanges.
¶ Item, through inability: as if a minor, when