AD NUTUM. - In current canon law, ecclesiastical offices are called conferred a. n. when their holder can be removed at the discretion of the superior without canonically established causes being strictly defined. Such, for example, are the offices of vicar general (CIC, can. 366, § 2), of vicar forane (can. 446, § 2), of religious parish priest (can. 454, § 5), of parochial vicars (can. 887), of church rectors (can. 880). Any measure revocable at the discretion of its author (discretionary measure) is also called a. n.; therefore this expression has a meaning analogous to the other: ad beneplacitum nostrum (v.), with the difference that the latter form entails the cessation of the concession even in the case of loss of power on the part of the grantor.
Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. I, 1948 Canon & civil law Particular questions
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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I (1948), col. 311.
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Scola, Alberto. “Ad Nutum.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, col. 311. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/ad-nutum.
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Scola, Alberto. “Ad Nutum.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, col. 311. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/ad-nutum.
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author = {Scola, Alberto},
title = {Ad Nutum},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {I},
pages = {311},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1948},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/ad-nutum}
}
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