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Can. 502

Legitima dimissione, ea exclusa, de qua in can. 497, ipso iure cessant omnia vincula necnon obligationes ex professione monastica orta et, si sodalis in ordine sacro constitutus est, servari debet can. 494.

Wording unchanged since the Code took effect in 1991.

Read the whole title TITULUS XIIDe Monachis Ceterisque Religiosis et de Sodalibus Aliorum Institutorum Vitae Consecratae 410–572