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church property

NOUN
  1. property or income owned by a church

How To Use church property In A Sentence

  • The pope and the king of France taught Edward II to dissolve the preceptories, to the number of twenty-three, belonging to the Templars; in 1410 the Commons petitioned for the confiscation of all church property; in 1414 the alien priories in England fell under the animadversion of the government; their property was handed over to the crown and they escaped only by the payment of heavy fines, by incorporation into English orders, and by partial confiscation of their land. The Age of the Reformation
  • First used to indicate the process of alienation of Church property to the state, it soon came to be applied to the loss of temporal power by the Church.
  • The Virginia diocese is still in court trying to get the church property back. Think Progress » Obama Publicly Condemns Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Legislation: It Is An ‘Odious’ Bill
  • The court in this case addressed the question of how to value the loss to church property caused by a defective product. Christianity Today
  • The attractive three-bedroom parsonage is located on the church property. The Navy and Married Life
  • Their duties were primarily to take care of the church property, assess the rates, and call the vestry-meetings. Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins
  • About thirty years ago, Mohammed Ali Pasha bought up all the Wakf (church property), agreeing to pay for its produce, which he rated at five piastres the ardeb, when it was worth three times as much. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
  • Renovation and redecoration of church property was followed by an elaborate sesquicentennial celebration.
  • placet," taken measures to restrict mortmain (which exempted Church property from taxation), and had obtained the right to designate bishops. Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day
  • The consecration of the sale of Church property was integral to Napoleon's desire to consolidate a ruling class based on landownership which was both noble and non-noble, a single propertied class of ‘notables’.
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