%0 Journal Article
%T Le droit des missions aux colonies : une affaire   patrimoniale   ? Missionary law in the colonies : a   patrimonial   affair ?
%A Bernard Durand
%J Cahiers d'¨¦tudes du Religieux
%D 2008
%I Maison des Sciences de l'Homme
%R 10.4000/cerri.259
%X Rarement de la comp¨¦tence du l¨¦gislateur m¨¦tropolitain, sinon ¨¤ appliquer les solutions arr¨ºt¨¦es sous le r¨¦gime du concordat, souvent abandonn¨¦ au l¨¦gislateur local et encore plus souvent laiss¨¦ ¨¤ l¡¯¨¦tat de   fait   ?, le droit des missions dans les colonies, lorsque s¡¯engage la question des liens entre ¨¦glise et ¨¦tat sous la IIIe R¨¦publique, accuse des traits originaux. Au-del¨¤ des interrogations relatives aux autorisations, ¨¤ la police des cultes, aux immeubles affect¨¦s aux cultes, revient de fa on r¨¦p¨¦t¨¦e la question du droit de propri¨¦t¨¦ reconnu aux missions. Proc¨¨s, transactions, arrangements, conflits font se rencontrer le Domaine et les   missions   devant un juge le plus souvent embarrass¨¦ pour dire le droit. Faut-il en conclure que les difficult¨¦s d¡¯introduire les lois de 1901, 1904, 1905 se marient avec celles lancinantes de l¡¯introduction d¡¯un r¨¦gime du droit des biens, tout aussi difficile ¨¤ dessiner ? C¡¯est l¡¯hypoth¨¨se ¨¤ pr¨¦senter. Missionary law in the colonies, when seen in the context of the relationships between Church and State under the Third Republic, has many original features : it rarely entered the sphere of action of metropolitan lawyers (who simply applied the solutions adopted under the Concordat regime). Local lawyers were often left to deal with it, when anything happened at all. Beyond issues such as the control of worship (for example, the authorisations that were granted, or the buildings that were especially designated, to conduct worship), the question of the property rights of the mission returned time and again. Through lawsuits, transactions, settlements and conflicts, we witness how the colonial Domain and the ¡®missions¡¯ met before a judge who, most of the time, was embarrassed to adjudicate. Can we then conclude that the difficulties encountered in introducing the laws of 1901, 1904 and 1905 are tied to the repeated difficulties to introduce property law¡ªwhich is just as problematic to define ? This is the hypothesis that we will present.
%K Third Republic
%K French colonies
%K property law
%K mission law
%K separation of Church and State
%K judicial application
%K IIIe R¨¦publique
%K colonies fran aises
%K droit des biens
%K droit des missions
%K loi de s¨¦paration des ¨¦glises et de l¡¯¨¦tat
%K application judiciaire
%U http://cerri.revues.org/259