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.