[Modus vacandi beneficiorum]

he is rendered unable to obtain those and any ecclesiastical benefices whatsoever, whether similar or dissimilar; nevertheless, he does not lose simple benefices and others without care which are not dignities or personates previously held by him.
¶ Item, when benefices become vacant through the revocation of unions and incorporations.
¶ Item, when through the revocation of commendams made by apostolic or ordinary authority.
¶ Item, if someone accepts with his expectant grace and does not publish, or cause to be published, the instrument of acceptance and provision with other letters, such a benefice becomes vacant. Note that after a citation has been executed, a lawsuit is said to be pending; meanwhile, if one of the litigants dies in the Curia or outside it with the suit undecided, then the papal official cannot accept that benefice, but only the Pope has the power to dispose of it. Let the litigant therefore take care to have himself surrogated into the right of the deceased, lest another forestall him for at least a month, because the suit...