Il possessio ed il dominium dei beni temporali della Chiesa nella legislazione canonica cattolica orientale
Possessio and Dominium of the Temporal Goods of the Church in the Eastern Catholic Canon Law

Summary/Abstract: Possessio and Dominium of the Temporal Goods of the Church in the Eastern Catholic Canon Law. The Catholic canonical legislation establishes the principle of the appurtenance of the temporal goods to the legal persons that have acquired those goods legally, using in this respect the Latin term “dominium”. Dominium expresses the complete property, that is, the status de iure and de facto, whereas the ownership – or the property right – expresses only a status of de iure. The exercise of the dominium right by the ecclesiastical legal persons over the ecclesiastical goods is subject to the supreme authority of the Roman Pontiff, also considered “the supreme administrator and steward of all ecclesiastical temporal goods”. This does not alter the judicial content of the ecclesiastical title deed of the legal persons over the acquired goods, on the contrary, the legal person remains the only proprietor and holder of such a right. The intervention of the Roman Pontiff, as supreme administrator and steward of all ecclesiastical goods, is meant to ensure the ecclesiality of the respected goods, however, without changing the dominium of the legal persons over their acquired goods.

• Details
• Contents