e. About the Fifth Penalty or about Interdict

49. The fifth penalty is interdict, which is restriction from exercising certain ecclesiastical acts, or from assisting in certain such acts. And although this penalty sometimes could be inflicted on a place and not on a person, sometimes on a person and not on a place, sometimes on both (and as it is inflicted so must it be kept), yet, as it is a penalty distinct from the rest, it is more frequently inflicted on a place and not on persons not yet in the place, as namely that in such a place it is not licit solemnly to celebrate divine service, or for others to take part.

50. And this penalty of interdict is sometimes contracted by law, sometimes by a judge. An example by law occurs about those who receive usurers from outside, Boniface VIII Decretals Book Six V tit.5 ch.1, “Abyss of usurers,” and for innumerable reasons. More usually, because of disobedience common to the people of a land, it is relaxed by him who imposed the interdict; sometimes it is relaxed in certain cases by law, as is plain in Boniface VIII Decretals Book Six V tit.11 ch.24, “Kindly Mother Church.”