[Decretales]

The text contains the Glossa Ordinaria surrounding a Decretal passage regarding the invalidity of papal letters obtained through deception and the rules for abbots and their communities in legal proceedings.

[Regarding the delegated judges]... because the judge finds them to have proceeded less prudently. For when it was commanded to them principally that they should personally approach the aforementioned church and allow a suitable person to receive administration, and [that] the resignation of the subtractions referring to disputed goods or rights should be made for the benefit of the abbey, they, transposing the form of the apostolic mandate and having passed over that article, inquired inordinately about other articles. And for that reason, we have judged that their proceedings against the form of our rescript and the order of law are to be declared void.

n Transposing. Note that in writings, the order of writing is to be preserved, as here, and in [the Decretum] 43, distinction, "Let the rector be." And in 2, question 7, "In which things." And in 17, question 4, "In the first." Digest, On Usufruct, "As often as." And the order of words shows the order of the process. And where something is commanded principally, that is to be treated as principal and first; the rest, however, as secondary and accessory, are to be expedited subsequently. But where several things are commanded principally, it does not matter which of them is treated first, unless perhaps one by its nature precedes.