[Modus vacandi beneficiorum]

[...which] he has for a whole month after the impetrant has caused himself to be surrogated into the right of the deceased, a practice which is unknown to many and yet the Rota observes it thus. And the same applies if the litigants should reach a concord while the suit is undecided, and one of them dies and does not renounce, then that benefice is again deemed reserved to the Pope and does not fall under an expectant grace; and this is true if the suit is pending in the Roman Curia. It is otherwise, however, elsewhere; even if someone should renounce a benefice in the Curia, then it is also deemed to be at the disposal of the Pope alone.

¶ Item, if someone obtains some benefice actually devolved or reserved or otherwise vacant in due manner, and afterwards obtains another benefice and does not care for the first, then that benefice stands at the disposal of the Pope alone, nor does the power of providing return to the Ordinary.

¶ Item, through free resignation, as if someone resigns some benefice before a notary and witnesses, or into the hands of one having the power to admit...