Guam § 10107 - Purchase, Sale, etc., of Property.

§ 10107. Purchase, Sale, etc., of Property.

Any corporation sole may purchase and hold real estate and personal

property for its church, charitable, benevolent, or educational purposes, and

may receive bequests or gifts for such purposes. Such corporation may

mortgage or sell real property held by it upon obtaining an order for that

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purpose from the Superior Court; but before making the order proof must be

made to the satisfaction of the court that notice of the application for leave

to mortgage or sell has been given by publication or otherwise in such

manner and for such time as said court or the judge thereof may have

directed, and that it is to the interest of the corporation that leave to

mortgage or sell should be granted.

The application for leave to mortgage or sell must be made by petition,

duly verified by the bishop, chief priest, or presiding elder, acting as

corporation sole, and may be opposed by any member of the religious

denomination, society, or church represented by the corporation sole;

Provided, however, that in cases where the rules, regulations, and discipline

of the religious denomination, society, or church concerned, represented by

such corporation sole, regulate the methods of acquiring, holding, selling,

and mortgaging real estate and personal property, such rules, regulations,

and discipline shall control and the intervention of the courts shall not be

necessary.