Code_of_Canon_Law

ensure that the person’s livelihood is secure for an appropriate time, unless this has been
provided for in some other way.
ARTICLE 4: DEPRIVATION
Can. 196 §1 Deprivation of office, that is, as a punishment for an offence, may be effected only
in accordance with the law.
§2 Deprivation takes effect in accordance with the provisions of the canons concerning penal
law.
TITLE X: PRESCRIPTION
Can. 197 Prescription, as a means of acquiring or of losing a subjective right, or as a means of
freeing oneself from obligations, is, apart from the exceptions prescribed in the canons of this
Code, accepted by the Church in the manner in which it is adopted in the civil legislation of each
country.
Can. 198 No prescription is valid unless it is based on good faith, not only in its beginning, but
throughout the whole time required for the prescription, without prejudice to can. 1362.
Can. 199 The following are not affected by prescription:
1° rights and obligations which are of divine law, whether natural or positive;
2° rights which can be obtained only by apostolic privilege;
3° rights and obligations which bear directly on the spiritual life of Christ’s faithful;
4° the certain and undisputed boundaries of ecclesiastical territories;
5° Mass offerings and obligations;
6° the provision of an ecclesiastical office which, in accordance with the law, requires the
exercise of a sacred order;
7° the right of visitation and the obligation of obedience, so that Christ’s faithful could not be
visited by an ecclesiastical authority and would no longer be subject to any authority.
TITLE XI: THE RECKONING OF TIME
Can. 200 Unless the law provides otherwise, time is to be reckoned in accordance with the
following canons.
Can. 201 §1 Continuous time means unbroken time.