Procedure relative to the publication of a monitory letter.
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TITLE VII.
Monitory letters.
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ARTICLE V.
CURATES & their Vicars are obliged to publish the Monitory letter upon
the first demand, under penalty of confiscation of their worldly goods; which
may however, in the event of refusal, be done by another Priest appointed
as a matter of course by the Judge.
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ARTICLE X.
THE revelations recorded by the Curates or Vicars will be sealed and sent
by them to the Registry of the Jurisdiction where the process is pending;
& the expense for the voyage will be provided for by the Judge, if it
is payable by him.
ARTICLE XI.
In criminal proceedings, our Prosecutors and those of the Seigneurs, &
those Officiating, will receive communication of the revelations of the witnesses;
& the accusing party, of their name & domicile only.
Source: Louis XIV, Procedure relative to the publication of a monitory letter in Ordonnance de Louis XIV, roy de France et de Navarre donnée à Saint Germain en Laye au mois d’aoûst 1670 pour les matières criminelles, (Paris: Chez les Associés, 1670).