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Of these who ask from the Emperor that secular judges may take cognizance of their causes.
It seemed good that whoever should seek from the Emperor, that secular judges should take cognizance of his business, should be deprived of his office; if however, he had asked from the Emperor an episcopal trial, no objection should be made.
Let not him be a bishop who from the Emperor seeks a public judgment.
This canon is Canon X. of Carthage, a.d. 407.