INSTALLATION. - Installation (a term used alongside inthronisatio for bishops and the supreme pontiff) is the putting into possession of a benefice, whether consistorial or non-consistorial, called institutio corporalis (can. 1443 § 2). The CIC, for consistorial benefices, prefers the expression "possessionem capere" (cann. 293 § 2, 313, 322 § 1, 334 § 2, 353), and for non-consistorial ones, the term "missio in possessionem" (can. 1443 § 2).

Installation, in current law, is not merely a complementary rite, but the concluding act of the provision of a benefice, which grants the exercitium iuris in one's own benefice (cann. 334 § 2, 461, 1446, 1472 etc.).

It, which in the law of the Decretals constituted one of the competences of the archdeacon and later of the vicars general and forane, is now, in itself, reserved to the Ordinary, who, however, not only can delegate others, but, for a just cause, can dispense from the form that the canons or customs suggest for the taking of possession, which can also be done through a procurator furnished with a special mandate (cann. 1443-45). With the taking of possession, not only does the invested person acquire every right, both spiritual and temporal, of the benefice (can. 1472), but, ipso iure, the office or benefice incompatible with the new one becomes vacant (can. 2396; v. INCOMPATIBILITÀ). And if the taking of possession, although invalid, persists for three years, it gives the right of prescription over the benefice, provided, of course, that there has been no bad faith or simony (can. 1446).

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BIBL.: N. Garcia, De beneficiis ecclesiasticis, Saragozza 1609, parte 10ª, cap. 4; L. Thomassin, Vetus et nova disciplina circa beneficia et beneficiarius, Parigi 1688; M. Pistocchi, De re beneficiari iuxta canones, Torino 1928, p. 220 seg.; S. d'Angelo, De possessione beneficii, in Apollinaris, 1 (1928), pp. 411-15; T. Schaaf, Corporal installation of pastors, in The eccles. review, 9 (1934), pp. 620-24; G. Stocchiero, Il beneficio eccles. in provvisione, Vicenza 1946.

Innocenzo Parisella

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