Decretals of Gregory IX
In the "Corpus Juris Canonici", the "Decretum" and the Decretals of Gregory IX dealt with the subject. The offender whether "simoniacus" (the perpetrator of a simoniacal transaction) or "simoniace promotus" (the beneficiary of a simoniacal transaction), was liable to deprivation of his benefice and deposition from orders if a secular priest, or to confinement in a stricter monastery if a regular. No distinction seems to have been drawn between the sale of an immediate and of a reversionary interest. The innocent "simoniace promotus" was, apart from dispensation, liable to the same penalties as though he were guilty.