Can. 478
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Superior monasterii potest permittere, ut sodales extra monasterium degant ad tempus in typico determinatum; ad absentiam vero, quae unum annum excedit nisi causa studiorum vel infirmitatis intercedit, requiritur licentia auctoritatis, cui monasterium subiectum est.
Wording unchanged since the Code took effect in 1991.