Lexicographical Neighbors of Presentees
Literary usage of Presentees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Scottish Jurist: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the House of by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, House of Lords, Parliament, Great Britain (1841)
"... proceeds to be divided among the four pauper-presentees. The case is reported
by Mr Bell under the following summary,—' In a mortification of lands, ..."
2. The Council Book of the Corporation of Youghal: From 1610 to 1659, from 1666 by Youghal, Ireland Corporation, Richard Caulfield (1878)
"... time being are not fit to stand, that they be assistants to those two presentees
the Court will be pleased to swear for the execution of that office. ..."
3. The History of Scotland, from the Union to the Abolition of the Heritable by John Struthers (1828)
"... claiming the fruits of the benefice in cases where their presentees had been
set aside, and others inducted by the ecclesiastical courts, which, ..."
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