but it is dependent on God's judgment. It is not permitted that he be buried in consecrated ground.
D54.20.01 If a woman is betrothed, it is not permitted that any man
deprive him of her; if anyone does that, he is to be excommunicated.
D54.21.01 If someone with fraud takes a woman or a maiden
forcibly in unlawful fornication against her will, he is to be excommunicated.
D54.22.01 If someone with his craftiness seduces another man's
attendant for fornication, and against her will fornicate with her, if he is a man in orders, he is to
forfeit his rank; if he is a layman, he is to be excommunicated from all Christian
affairs.
D54.23.01 If a maiden is betrothed and in that state is captured, or if
for some reason she is taken away from him to whom she is betrothed, and it afterward happens
that they come into proximity (i.e., cohabit), they may remain together lawfully, for she was
taken
from him against her will.
D54.24.01 If a woman is in orders and she afterwards turns to
worldly idleness and undertakes to have a family and thinks that she can repent with her
possessions (for that), that she has angered God, that is not at all so. But she must give up her
marriage and turn to Christ and live her life as her confessor prescribes for her, and repent her
misdeeds earnestly ever after.
D54.25.01 If a masspriest or a monk kills a man, he is to forfeit his
rank and fast 10 years, 5 on bread and water and for 5 (years fast) 3 days of the week, and on
the others take his food, and repent his sins ever after. If a deacon (does this), 8 years on bread
and water, and so on (as above). If a cleric (does this), 6 years, 4 on bread and water; if a
layperson, 5 years, 3 on bread and water, as above.
D54.26.01 If someone slay a person in orders, or his own next of
kin, he is to leave his land and his possessions and do as the pope advises him and repent
ever after.
D54.27.01 If a masspriest or a monk commit fornication or adultery,
he is to fast for 10 years and repent ever after; if a deacon, 7 years; if a cleric, 6; if a
layman, 5, as with manslaughter.
D54.28.01 If a masspriest or a monk or a deacon had a lawful wife
before he was in orders and he leaves her in order to receive orders, and afterwards through
fornication takes her again, each one of them is to fast as for manslaughter, and they should
repent greatly.
D54.28.02 If a masspriest or a monk or a deacon or a layman or a
cleric fornicates with a nun, each one of them is to fast as befits his rank, as for manslaughter,
and
ever after he shall forgo meat; and the nun (is to fast for) 10 years as the masspriest, and repent
ever after.
D54.29.01 If anyone wishes to fornicate with a nun and she does not
wish to,
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