Canon LV. Neither members of the priesthood nor of the clergy, nor yet laymen, may club together for drinking entertainments. Notes. Ancient Epitome of Canon LV. Neither a layman nor a cleric shall celebrate a club feast. These meals, the expenses of which were defrayed by a number clubbing together and sharing the cost, were called “symbola” by Isidore, and by Melinus and Crabbe “comissalia,” although the more ordinary form is “commensalia” or “comessalia.”  Cf . Ducange Gloss ., s.v. Commensalia and Confertum. This Canon is found in the Corpus Juris Canonici , Gratian’s Decretum , Pars I., Dist. XLIV., c. x. (Isidore’s version), and c. xij., (Martin of Braga’s version).