Canon 35 A metropolitan may not seize a dead bishop's property

Let it not be permitted to any of all the metropolitans, when a bishop who ranks under his throne dies, to take away or appropriate his goods, or those of his church; but let them be under the safekeeping of the clergy of the church of which the deceased was president, until the promotion of another bishop; unless no clerics were left in that same church; for then the metropolitan shall keep these things undiminished, rendering everything to the bishop who is to be ordained.