Cap. 16 Art. 611Incapacity of members of monastic orders, etc.

(1) The members of monastic orders or of religious corporations of regulars cannot, after taking the vows in the religious order or corporation, dispose by will.

(2) Nor can such persons receive under a will except small life pensions, saving any other prohibition laid down by the rules of the order or corporation to which they belong. (3)* Where such persons are lawfully released from their vows, they shall again acquire the capacity to receive under a will, as well as to dispose of such property as they may have subsequently acquired, and any disposition made in favour of a person who at the time of the testator’s death was a member of a monastic order or of a religious corporation of regulars shall remain suspended until such person is either released from his vows as aforesaid or dies while still a member of such order or corporation, and shall be ineffectual if the person, in whose favour it is made, dies while still such a member.