from
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
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.