CLEMENTINES

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  CLEMENTINES, eccl. law. The name usually given to the collection of 
  decretals or constitutions of Pope Clement V., which was made by order of 
  John XXII. his successor, who published it in 1317. The death of Clement V., 
  which happened in 1314, prevented him from publishing this collection, which 
  is properly a compilation, as well of the epistles and constitutions of this 
  pope, as of the decrees of the council of Vienna, over which he presided. 


  The Clementines are divided in five books, in which the matter is 
  distributed nearly upon the same plan as the Decretals of Gregory IX. Vide La
  
  Bibliotheque des auteurs ecclesiastiques, par Dupin.