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Interdict (Old Roman civil law ats)

in old Roman civil law, ats sometimes enjoining, INTERDICT thing to be done. The interdiction of any one from fire and water - i. e., from obtaining those necessaries at Rome was tantamount to banishment from the city.

In Roman Catholic ecclesiastical law and history, an ecclesiastical censure by which persons are debarred from "the use of certain sacraments, from all the divine offices, and from Christian burial." Interdicts seem to have commenced with bishops in the 9th century (e. g. Hincmar of Laon, 869). March 23, 1208, Pope Innocent III. placed England under an interdict, which was not removed till Dec. 6, 1213. On On Dec. 17, 1538, Pope Paul III. published a bull excommunicating and deposing Henry VIII., and placing the kingdom under an interdict. The Canon Law gradually introduced mitigations in the severity of interdicts. Baptism Baptisms and confirmations might be administered to persons in danger of death; marriage was permitted, but without solemnities; faithful ecclesiastics might be buried in the churchyard, but in silence; priests might be ordained if there were not enough previously; there might be Low Mass every week, and High Mass at the five great festivals of Christmas, Easter, Whitsunday, Corpus Christi, and the Assumption. In April, 1606, Pope Paul V. placed the republic of Venice under an interdict, which was met by determined and effectual resistance from the government, and soon afterward interdicts fell into disuse.