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situation for decretal letters issued during the period between Gratian's compilation and 1234 is clearer. Gregory IX in Rex pacificus explicitly established that such decretals retained legal force only to the extent that they had been included in the new compilation (that is, the Liber Extra) and only in the form found there. Those not included ceased to have binding legal authority; the passages left out by Raimund (known as partes decisae) However, in practice legal scholars continued to cite older collections, decretals not contained in

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