A collection of papal decretals and church law documents issued after the main body of canon law, historically used in Catholic ecclesiastical courts.
From Medieval Latin 'extravagantes' (wandering outside), referring to papal documents that wandered outside the official canonical collections, literally meaning 'things that go beyond the bounds.'
Medieval church lawyers had to keep adding new papal rules that didn't fit into the official canon law collections—so they created a separate legal category for these 'wandering' laws, and the name literally reflects that mess of documents outside the main system.
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