Note 538 — Chapter II · LIMITATION OF JURISDICTION OR RESERVED CASES
Richard F. (Richard Frederick) Clarke translation
They are (1) those which, in an especial manner (speciali modo) are reserved to the Pope, (2) those which are simply reserved to the Pope, (3) those which are reserved to the bishops, and (4) those which are reserved to no one. The two first classes are to be kept apart from each other, for a person possessing the faculty to absolve from the Papal cases does not necessarily possess the faculty to absolve from the cases which are speciali modo reserved, if this addition is not expressly made. By virtue of the jus commune (Conc. Trid. Sess. XXIV. cp. 6) it belongs to the bishop to absolve from the second class if the cases are secret.