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advowson

NOUN
  1. the right in English law of presenting a nominee to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice

How To Use advowson In A Sentence

  • After the churches themselves passed out of private hands, the advowsons tended to remain with the heirs.
  • The prestige of the gentry remained high, since they often owned the advowson and had a cousin or an uncle in the rectory as well.
  • The doctor had vested the advowson of Thame in a committee of trustees.
  • In English law the term prescription is applied to rights only which are defined to be incorporeal hereditaments, such as a right of way or a common or an advowson. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
  • Miss Tringham, who held the advowson of Chobham then became the advowson holder of both parishes.
  • The advowson therefore can be discounted as a guide to the descent of the manor or part manor.
  • Nobles and gentlemen also bought the impropriated tithes and advowsons, and so strengthened their hand in parish affairs.
  • An advowson, regarded by the law as property, is termed an incorporeal hereditament, "a right issuing out of a thing corporate. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
  • The widespread practice by which lay owners of advowsons nominally appointed a clergyman to several benefices at the same time, while the income from the benefices remained almost totally in their own hands, became illegal.
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