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Can. 464

Ad validitatem professionis monasticae perpetuae requiritur, ut:

1° novitiatus valide peractus sit;

2° novitius admittatur ad professionem a Superiore proprii monasterii sui iuris de consensu sui consilii necnon recipiatur professio ab eodem Superiore per se vel per alium;

3° professio sit expressa nec vi, metu gravi aut dolo emissa vel recepta;

4° cetera ad validitatem professionis in typico requisita impleantur.

Wording unchanged since the Code took effect in 1991.

Read the whole title TITULUS XIIDe Monachis Ceterisque Religiosis et de Sodalibus Aliorum Institutorum Vitae Consecratae 410–572