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T-7 - Act respecting lands of religious congregations

Section 4
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4. Whenever any parish, mission, congregation or society of Christians of any denomination, not being a parish recognized by the law, is desirous of acquiring lands for the sites of churches, chapels, meeting-houses, cemeteries, dwelling-houses for their priests, ministers, ecclesiastics or religious teachers, or school-houses, and the appurtenances thereunto necessary for the said several purposes, such parish, mission, congregation or society of Christians may appoint one or more trustees, to whom and to whose successors, to be appointed in the manner set forth in the deed of transfer, the lands necessary for each and every of the purposes aforesaid may be conveyed; and such trustees and their successors forever, by the name by which they and the congregation on whose behalf they act, are designated in such deed of transfer, may acquire by purchase, donation, exchange, or as a legacy, and hold and possess the lands so acquired, and may institute and defend all actions at law for the conservation of such lands and of their rights therein.
R. S. 1964, c. 306, s. 4; 1999, c. 40, s. 315.
4. Whenever any parish, mission, congregation or society of Christians of any denomination, not being a parish recognized by the civil law of Québec, is desirous of acquiring lands for the sites of churches, chapels, meeting-houses, cemeteries, dwelling-houses for their priests, ministers, ecclesiastics or religious teachers, or school-houses, and the appurtenances thereunto necessary for the said several purposes, such parish, mission, congregation or society of Christians may appoint one or more trustees, to whom and to whose successors, to be appointed in the manner set forth in the deed of grant, concession or conveyance, the lands necessary for each and every of the purposes aforesaid may be conveyed; and such trustees and their successors forever, by the name by which they and the congregation on whose behalf they act, are designated in such deed of grant, concession or conveyance, may acquire by purchase, donation, exchange, or as a legacy, and hold and possess the lands so acquired, and may institute and defend all actions at law for the conservation of such lands and of their rights therein.
R. S. 1964, c. 306, s. 4.
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