Book V: Temporal Goods (cc. 1254-1310) Flashcards
What is a Juridic Person?
- It is an artificial person distinct from the persons and things that serve as its basis in reality,
- established by ecclesiastical authority for an apostolic purpose,
- with the capacity for continuous existence with its own rights and obligations at Canon Law.
- Accountable to Canon Law.
Bona Ecclesiastica
Property owned by some public juridic person (and some private if expressly stated).
Prescription
Acquiring or losing a right or freeing oneself from an obligation by the passage of time.
Roman Pontiff
Is the supreme administrator of the goods of the Church (not the owner).
Acts of Ordinary Administration
Acts which occur regularly. Those of greater importance require consultation with the finance and presbyteral councils.
Acts of Extraordinary Administration
Acts which go beyond regular occurrence and require the consent of the finance and presbyteral councils.
Pious Cause
Goods given for (not to) pious causes by competent persons.
Pious Will
Legitimately accepted will of the faithful to give to a pious cause.
Pious Trust
A pious will with the requirement of ongoing administration.
Pious Foundation
This is either autonomous or non-autonomous. When it is autonomous, it refers to a juridic person that is an aggregate of goods.
When it is non-autonomous, it refers to a pious trust with a public person as a trustee.
Extinctive Union (merger)
Parish A and Parish B unite to form Parish C.
Extinctive Union (merger/amalgamation):
Parish A is subsumed into Parish B.
Total Division
Parish A is divided into Parish B and Parish C.
Suppression
Parish A is extinguished, and nothing remains.
NB:
Territorial parishes are never truly suppressed since the people remain.
