APOSTOLICAE SEDIS. — These are the opening words of the celebrated constitution promulgated by Pius IX on 12 Oct. 1869 with the aim of reorganizing, adapting to the times, the delicate matter of latae sententiae censures (v. CENSURA).
In view of the large number of sanctions of this kind accumulated through the successive enactments of his predecessors, and given the doubts that could arise regarding some of them, the Pope wisely decreed that a single law of universal and exclusive character should henceforth determine which offences were to be punished with ipso facto censures. Thus, a small penal code was established, which envisaged 38 cases of excommunication (twelve of which were reserved in a special manner to the Roman Pontiff, eighteen reserved simpliciter to the same, three reserved to the ordinary, and five not reserved to anyone), 7 cases of suspension, and 2 of interdict.
The constitution A. S., on which the ingenuity of numerous commentators was exercised, remained in force until the promulgation of the CIC, which in Book V, De delictis et poenis, absorbed for the most part its content.
BIBL.: G. Formisano, *Commentario sulla costituzione A. S.*, 6th ed., Naples 1876; J. Pennacchi–P. Avanzini, *Commentario in costituzione A. S.*, 2 vols., Rome 1883; J. Bucceroni, *Commentari di costituzione A. 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