Can. 1267
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Causa incidens habetur, quoties incepta litis instantia quaestio proponitur, quae, etsi libello litis introductorio non continetur expresse, nihilominus ita ad causam pertinet, ut solvi plerumque debeat ante quaestionem principalem.
Wording unchanged since the Code took effect in 1991.
Read the whole title TITULUS XXVDe Iudicio Contentioso 1185–1356