Expolio (goods)

They are called expolios or espolios to the furniture, money, jewelry, credits and real estate and semovientes that the bishops leave to their death and the rents of their dignity, corresponding to the time from the death to the day of the recommendation of the successor in Rome.

Since the earliest antiquity these funds and jewels have belonged to the public treasury; as shown in note 1, ch. 6, lib. 10 of the history of Spain, written by Fr. Juan de Mariana: On the death of Dalmatius, archbishop of Santiago, in the year 1100, they administered their income to two laymen. In the death of the prelates the king appointed administrators of his income with application to the treasury; because as the goods of the churches came from the crown, to death he used this right of reversion, to take advantage of it In spite of a royalty inherent to the authority of the sovereigns at the mercy of the confusion of ideas of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the Roman Curia managed to appropriate the spolies and rents of the mitres to the death of the prelates of Spain and enjoyed them until, by virtue of the concordato fit between Ferdinand VI and the sanctity of Benedict XIV, on January 12, 1753, they remained at the disposal of the king to apply them to the uses that prescribe the canons.

Dictionary of Finance, José Canga Argüelles, 1833 The phenomenon of the plundering of real estate, is called "ELGINISM", following Merino de Cáceres and other authors. The elginismo supposes the fragmentation of a work for its later shipment to another place, normally very different from the one of the origin of the monument, what makes that they are decontextualized and outside their habitat. ELGINISMO affected an immensity of real estate that was dismantled, divided and transported to places very distant to the one of its natural origin

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