Jus exclusivae

The Exclusive ( from the Latin ius exclusivae exclusive right ) was to exclude claimed by Catholic monarchs veto, certain persons in the conclave by a commissioned " Kronkardinal " of the election.

Claimed and uses the Exclusive of Spain, France, the Holy Roman Empire of the German nation was ( until 1804 ) and Austria ( after 1804 ).

The Exclusive was exercised, for example, 1721 and 1724 by the Emperor Charles VI. Fabrizio Paolucci, the Cardinal Secretary of State of Pope Clement XI. The last time was the exclusive 1903 after the death of Pope Leo XIII. presented by the Krakow cardinal January Puzyna de Kosielsko by order of Emperor Franz Joseph I. against Cardinal Rampolla Mariano del Tindaro. It was the Patriarch of Venice, Giuseppe Sarto elected Pope and took the name Pius X..

This lifted the Exclusive. In the Apostolic Constitution commissum nobis January 20, 1904, he forbade any cardinal under penalty of excommunication, the conclave to deliver a Exclusive.