Can. 1404
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§ 1. In poenis benignior est interpretatio facienda.
§ 2. Non licet poenam de persona ad personam vel de casu ad casum producere, etsi par adest ratio, immo gravior.
Wording unchanged since the Code took effect in 1991.
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