Super Specula
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Super Specula or Super Speculam was a decretal issued by Pope Honorius III in 1219 which had the effect of preventing the teaching of Roman civil law in Paris with the object of suppressing it in favor of canon law.[1][2] It contained three parts: Sane licet sancta ecclesia, Sane licet fallax, and Volumus et Mandamus.[2][3]
The first part of the decretal was included in the Quinta Compilatio under the heading De Constitutionibus. It positions canon law as more necessary than Roman empire's civil law.[1]