Definition of Advowson

1. Noun. The right in English law of presenting a nominee to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice.

Generic synonyms: Right
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law

Definition of Advowson

1. n. The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church. [Originally, the relation of a patron (advocatus) or protector of a benefice, and thus privileged to nominate or present to it.]

Definition of Advowson

1. Noun. (British legal) The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church. ¹

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Definition of Advowson

1. the right of presenting a nominee to a vacant church office [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Advowson

advocator
advocators
advocatory
advoke
advoked
advokes
advoking
advolution
advoutrer
advoutrers
advoutress
advoutresses
advoutry
advowee
advowees
advowson (current term)
advowsons
advowtries
advowtry
advoyer
advoyers
adward
adwarded
adwarding
adwards
adwesch
adwoman
adwomen

Literary usage of Advowson

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Practical and Elementary Abridgment of the Cases Argued and Determined in by Charles Petersdorff, Elisha Hammond (1829)
"A rever- Tenant in tail of a manor, to which an advowson is appendant, ... KB 3 Salk.35; SCI advowson ln tai' 1S attainted, the advowson is become appendant ..."

2. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, George Sharswood, Barron Field (1908)
"But he who has an advowson or a right of patronage in fee may by deed transfer every ... 1 For instance, if the manor to which an advowson is appendant be ..."

3. The Liberty of the Press, Speech, and Public Worship: Being Commentaries on by James Paterson (1880)
"Where the bishop is patron, and himself inducts, it is called advowson ... Where the patron names to a donative, it is an advowson donative. ..."

4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: In by Sandford Nevile, Great Britain Court of King's Bench (1834)
"1, by a fine levied between the then Bishop of Rochester and Earl Edmund, the Bishop granted and released all his riglit in the advowson of St. Brian to the ..."

5. A Digest of the Laws of England by John Comyns, Anthony Hammond (1822)
"Must shew a title to the advowson. The plaintiff in quare impedit must ... And a title to the advowson, as well as presentment, ought to be alleged in the ..."

6. The Ecclesiastical Law by Richard Burn, Robert Phillimore (1842)
"Or if a lessee for life of a manor, to which an advowson belongs, alien one acre, with the advowson appendant, the advowson is thereby appendant to that ..."

7. Prideaux's Precedents in Conveyancing: With Dissertations on Its Law and by Frederick Prideaux, John Whitcombe (1889)
"advowson. trators, or assigns of the said AB, within three calendar ... Purchaser of advowson in fee. Sale of advowson where incumbent is in extremis. ..."

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