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Definition of Advocation
1. n. The act of advocating or pleading; plea; advocacy.
Definition of Advocation
1. Noun. (archaic) The act of advocating or pleading. ¹
2. Noun. (British legal) The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church. ¹
3. Noun. (Scotland legal) The process of removing a cause from an inferior court to the supreme court. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Advocation
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Advocation
Literary usage of Advocation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Institute of the Law of Scotland: In Four Books : in the Order of Sir by John Erskine, James Ivory (1828)
"advocation in questions of competency, 69, 33. advocation from inferior ...
advocation, 989, 40. In what cases it is competent against interlocutory ..."
2. The Practice of the Court of Session: On the Basis of the Late Mr. Darling's by Charles Farquhar Shand, James Johnston Darling (1848)
"advocation IN SERVICES. It is now unnecessary to notice at length the mode of
procedure in ... to present a note of advocation to the Court of Session, ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Review in Criminal Cases by the High Court and by Henry James Moncreiff Moncreiff (1877)
"The processes of advocation and suspension are common law remedies, ... advocation,
which is literally the calling up or removal of a cause from an inferior ..."
4. A Digest of the Law of Scotland: With Special Reference to the Office and by Hugh Barclay, Scotland (1855)
"On an advocation, the court found " that the transaction being an abuse, ...
In an advocation of a judgment of the sheriff under the Turnpike Act convicting ..."
5. A Practical Treatise on the Forms of Process: Containing the New Regulations by Thomas Beveridge, Scotland Jury Court (1826)
"120, § 41, it is enacted, ' That from and after the 11th day of November ' 1825,
bills of advocation complaining of final judg- ' ments of sheriffs, ..."
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