This volume offers a reinterpretation of the tormented vicissitudes of ecclesiastical patrimony between the subversive 19th century legislation and the arrangement given to the matter by the Lateran Pacts and the current Civil Code. The focus is not so much on ecclesiastical entities as on their patrimonial 'destinations'.
Excluded, as a matter of principle, by the liberal legislature, substantially ignored by the regulatory framework set out in the '29 Concordat and the '42 Code, patrimonial destinations nonetheless made their way into the legal system and, more recently, also received specific regulatory recognition through the effect of the new Article 2645 ter of the Civil Code. This reinforces the increasingly widespread calls for a comprehensive revision of Book 1 of the Civil Code.