Can. 1270
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§ 1. Si quaestio incidens solvi debet per sententiam, serventur canones de iudicio contentioso summario, nisi attenta rei gravitate aliud iudici videtur.
§ 2. Si vero solvi debet per decretum, tribunal potest rem committere auditori vel praesidi.
Wording unchanged since the Code took effect in 1991.
Read the whole title TITULUS XXVDe Iudicio Contentioso 1185–1356