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Definition of Advowsons
1. advowson [n] - See also: advowson
Lexicographical Neighbors of Advowsons
Literary usage of Advowsons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"advowsons appendant or in gross.—advowsons are either advowsons appendant, or
advowsons in gross. Lords of manors being originally the only founders, ..."
2. The Liberty of the Press, Speech, and Public Worship: Being Commentaries on by James Paterson (1880)
"—In consequence of the inconvenience of advowsons being practically vested in
large bodies of ratepayers or inhabitants who derive no pecuniary advantage ..."
3. The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I by Frederick Pollock, Frederic William Maitland (1899)
"But advowsons are often severed from the manors to which, in legal theory, ...
The latter transaction is common ; numerous advowsons are detached from their ..."
4. A Digest of the Laws of England Respecting Real Property by William Cruise, Henry Hopley White (1835)
"I. Of the Origin and Nature of advowsons. CHAP. II. Of Presentation, Institution,
and Induction. CHAP. I. Of the Origin and Nature of advowsons. SECT. ..."
5. A Practical Treatise on the Law of Perpetuity: Or, Remoteness in Limitations by William David Lewis (1843)
"advowsons Having ascertained, that the provisions under considera- ... advowsons are,
most undoubtedly, recognised by our Courts of law and equity, ..."
6. New Commentaries on the Laws of England: (partly Founded on Blackstone) by Henry John Stephen, James Stephen (1863)
"Among the subjects of church property we enumerated advowsons and tithes: and
... And, first, as to advowsons.—advowsons are of the class of hereditaments ..."
7. The Extraordinary Black Book: An Exposition of Abuses in Church and State by John Wade (1832)
"These abuses must always continue while the law tolerates the sale of advowsons;
it is in vain to prohibit the corrupt presentation to an ecclesiastical ..."
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