16. Discussion of the lifting of the legal procedure of condemnation “It may be, monks, that the Sangha has done a legal procedure of condemnation against a monk, that he then conducts himself properly and suitably so as to deserve to be released, and that he then asks for the lifting of that procedure. The monks consider, ‘The Sangha has done a legal procedure of condemnation against this monk. He has conducted himself properly and suitably so as to deserve to be released, and now asks for the lifting of that procedure. Well then, let’s lift that procedure.’ They lift that procedure— illegitimately and with an incomplete assembly. He then goes to another monastery. There too the monks consider, ‘The Sangha has lifted a legal procedure of condemnation against this monk—illegitimately and with an incomplete assembly.