Note 1326 — XXVIII. THE COUNCIL OF TRENT.
Reading edition
Bull, ad Canonum (Mag. Bull. Roman. Ed. 1692, I. 682).
Alexander III., in prohibiting the sons of priests from enjoying their fathers’ benefices, had permitted it if a third party intervened, and a dispensation for the irregularity were obtained. The letter of this law was frequently observed, but its spirit eluded by nominally passing the preferment through the hands of a man of straw, and it was this abuse which Clement desired to eradicate.