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Scholion. On the Sale of Ecclesiastical Goods

905.

Besides those things which we are going to say about every alienation of ecclesiastical goods - for these things also must be applied to sale, since it is one of the modes of alienating - it suffices, as regards sale, to add these things:

I. Immovable ecclesiastical goods are not to be sold or let to their own administrators or to those joined to them in the first or second degree of consanguinity or affinity without the special permission of the local Ordinary (can. 1540).

II. In the sale or exchange of sacred things, no account of consecration or blessing is to be had in the estimation of the price (can. 1539, § 1).

III. Administrators can exchange titles to bearer, as they are called, for other titles more or at least equally safe and fruitful, with any species of commerce or trading excluded, and with the consent of the Ordinary, of the diocesan administrative Council, and of others whose interest is involved (can. 1539, § 2).

Property Rights of the ChurchBuying and Selling