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(Extravagantes), a name given to decretal epistles of the popes issued after Gratian's Decretum, and not contained in that work ( (See CANON LAW), ). They were therefore called extra decretunm vagantes, or, briefly, extravagantes; and this name was still given to them after their insertion in the body of the canon law. For an account of the different collections of extravagantes, (See CANON, LAW).