The Subject of Administration

The Order may acquire, possess and administer temporal goods, and so too may each province and convent.

1. Institutes and undertakings which pertain to a convent, a province, or the Order, and which are placed under the jurisdiction of the respective superior, may enjoy certain rights according to the statute of administration of the province or of the Order.
2. Similarly, personal administration may be conceded to designated officials of a convent, a province, or the Order: they are considered delegated administrators.
3. Within the limits of the statute of administration of a province or of the Order, superiors may depute individual brothers to carry out particular tasks.

Delegated or appointed administrators, as well as superiors and bursars, may also validly incur expenses and perform juridical acts of ordinary or extraordinary administration, provided they have the requisite approval.

1. If through its superiors, or its ordinary or delegated administrators, a convent, province or the Order incurs debts and obligations within the limits of their office, the moral person itself is responsible for them.
2. Similarly, if a deputed administrator contracts debts and obligations, the moral person in whose name the transactions took place is responsible for them.
3. If a brother contracts debts and obligations without a superior’s permission, he himself is responsible for them, not the Order, province or convent.