FERIAE IN IUDICIIS. - On certain days of the year, procedural acts cannot be performed. These dies feriati or feriae are divided: 1) into ordinary ones, fixed exhaustively in the CIC (can. 1639: holy days of obligation and the last three days of Holy Week) and extraordinary ones, established by the competent authorities for special events (anniversaries of the election of the Pontiff, of the Lateran Pacts, etc.); and 2) into iuris communis (established for the whole Church) and iuris particularis (established by individual ordinaries, can. 1638 § 1).

Current law, contrary to that of the Decretals, considers procedural acts performed on ferial days merely illicit, but not invalid. In individual cases required by necessity, by Christian charity and by the public good, can. 1639 allows the judge to perform such acts on ferial days; normally, however, under can. 1635, there is a prorogation de iure to the next non-ferial day.

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BIBL.: Wernz-Vidal, V, 1, Rome 1927, p. 164 agg.; F. Della Rocca, Istituzioni di diritto processuale canonico, Turin 1946, p. 152 ff.

Giorgio Franco

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