Donations are valid and obligatory when made by people capable of disposing of their property and accepted by the administrators of ecclesiastical establishments. It is deserving of note that while ecclesiastical and religious establishments may give alms, they are bound in the matter of real donations by the provisions of the canon law concerning the alienation of ecclesiastical property. No other formality is required, neither notarial act nor authorization of the common power. The declaration before the open authority, is not obligatory in canon law. Nor are the faithful obliged to regard the confinements which are placed by some cutting edge common codes in the way of a free disposition of their property.
In the two cases, be that as it may, the donation is valid in Canon law to the degree in which it regards the legitimate share of the contributor's kids. In the event that the administrators of an ecclesiastical foundation won't accept a donation, that organization can always obtain in canon law a restitution in integrum, whereby it is again placed in a condition to accept the declined donation. Austria perceived a juridical personality not just in those religious organizations which are charged with the maintenance of open love, yet in addition, through easily granted approval, in religious associations of any sort. That nation perceived the common personality of licit associations organized for a non-lucrative reason, however declared illegal each religious congregation not approved by a special law. At the same time, it would not approve the religious congregations which have looked for this approval.