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[English Version] . Als Begriff des kanonischen Rechts bez. P. ein kirchl. Amt, welches dauerhaft mit einer Vermögensausstattung verbunden ist, deren Nutzungen und Erträge den Unterhalt des Amtsinhabers gewährleisten sollen. Bis zur Einführung eines Gehaltssystems bedeutete die P. die wichtigste Einkunftsquelle kirchl. Amtsträger. Der Begriff P. ist weitgehend inhaltsgleich mit Beneficium. Bereits im frühen MA hatten sich die Landkirchen zu selbständigen Vermögensträgern mit eigenem, vom sonstigen…

[German Version] I. Inheritance law is the sum of those legal norms of private law that regulate the transfer of a natural person's (testator) property rights and obligations after death to another (natural or juridical) person (inheritance law in the object sense); in addition, inheritance law refers to the totality of all rights and claims that devolve upon one with respect to inheritance upon the death of the testator (inheritance; inheritance law in the subjective sense). German inheritance law is primarily regulated in the fifth volume of the Civil Code (§§1922 to 2385). II. The fu…

[German Version] As a concept belonging to canonical law, “benefice” serves to designate a church office which is permanently endowed with a patrimonial estate, the exploitation and revenues of which are meant to secure the livelihood of the office-holder. Until the introduction of a salary-based compensation system, the benefice represented the major source of income for clerical office-holders. The concept of prebend is largely identical with beneficium . Already in the early Middle Ages, the regional churches had …

[German Version] (Lat. fabrica ecclesiae) refers to that portion of property assigned to a local church that is set aside for the furnishing and maintenance of church buildings, as well as for the material needs of worship; it includes real estate (especially the church buildings and their furnishings) and movable goods (especially additional furnishings), as well as the proceeds from various donations (oblations, dues, ¶ etc.). The church maintenance fund began to appear in the 10th century as a consequence of the division of church property into bene…