Canon 1020

1. Every authority is under the grave obligation to see that

the temporal goods acquired by the Church be registered in the

name of the juridic person to which they belong, with due regard

for the prescriptions of civil law which safeguard the rights of

the Church. 2. If civil law does not allow temporal goods to

be registered in the name of a juridic person; the same authority

is to see that the rights of the Church remain protected by using

appropriate ways valid in civil law, after having heard experts

in civil law and the appropriate council. 3. These prescriptions are to be observed even as regards the temporal goods lawfully possessed by a juridic person, but whose acquisition is not

yet confirmed by documents. 4. The immediately higher authority is bound to urge the observance of these prescriptions.