f. About the Sixth Penalty or about Suspension

51. The sixth penalty is suspension, which is prohibition from an act otherwise suitable, and this for a time. And herein is this penalty specifically distinguished from the rest.

52. The penalty is also manifold: for one is suspension from office, one from a benefice, and one from entering a church; and the last is sometimes incurred by the law itself, Boniface VIII Decretals Book Six V tit.14 ch.1 and tit.11 ch.1.

53. And there is also suspension in receiving orders from a bishop who has renounced such place and dignity, for he who does not have the execution of orders does not confer the execution of orders; and so if he confer orders, and yet he who receives them does not have execution of them, he is therefore suspended, Gratian, Decretum, p.2 cause 1 q.7 ch.24, Gloss on Gregory IX, Decretals I tit.13 ch.1, ‘About those ordained by a bishop who has renounced the episcopacy’ [“He is suspended who receives orders from him who is suspended”]. Similarly about someone who is knowingly ordained simoniacally, as was said above [nn.27-28].

54. But it is removed by relaxation of such suspension done by him who put it in place, or by his superior.