Title III. Methods of Avoiding Trials(Cann. 1713 - 1716)

Can. 1713 In order to avoid judicial contentions an agreement or reconciliation is employed usefully, or the

controversy can be committed to the judgment of one or more arbitrators.

Can. 1714 For an agreement, a compromise, and an arbitrated judgment, the norms selected by the parties or, if the

parties have selected none, the law laid down by the conference of bishops, if there is such a law, or the civil law

in force in the place where the agreement is entered into is to be observed.

Can. 1715 §1. An agreement or compromise cannot be made validly concerning matters which pertain to the public

good and other matters about which the parties cannot make disposition freely.

§2. For temporal ecclesiastical goods, the formalities established by law for the alienation of ecclesiastical goods

are to be observed whenever the matter demands it.

Can. 1716 §1. If the civil law does not recognize the force of an arbitrated sentence unless a judge confirms it, an

arbitrated sentence in an ecclesiastical controversy, in order to have force in the canonical forum, needs the

confirmation of an ecclesiastical judge of the place where it was rendered.

§2. If civil law permits the challenge of an arbitrated judgment before a civil judge, however, the same

challenge can be proposed in the canonical forum before an ecclesiastical judge competent to judge the controversy

in the first grade.