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advowson::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | right |
Examples of advowson
advowson
The advowson right in the 12th Century was included in the possession of the Count of Thurgau.
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The lord of the manor also held the advowson for the church.
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These were improved to an extent with the selling of the advowson of the church at Ratcliffe-on-Soar.
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Following the dissolution of the monasteries, the advowson was granted to Richard Wilbraham and it then passed to the Lords Tollemache.
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A benefice could include a house as well as the income, which would provide for the incumbent, and the value of the advowson would vary accordingly.
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An advowson was regarded as property and could be bought, sold, or bequeathed but following reforms of parish administration in the 19th century it had little commercial value.
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English law retains a number of forms of property which are largely unknown in other common law jurisdictions such as the advowson, chancel repair liability and lordships of the manor.
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- The right in English law of presenting a nominee to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice
- The right to appoint a person to the church's benefice, for with the living came other appurtenances of the church - land which the priest used to support himself, and first fruits and the tithe, which was a tax or levy of a tenth of parishioners' income or produce to support the church. ...
- The right to apppoint a priest to a benefice, especially a parish church (Hey 1998 p 2).
- (England) the right to nominate a vicar or rector to a church.
- The perpetual right of presentation to or patronage of an ecclestical benefice, and in itself an incorporeal hereditament. Originally appendant to manors, the lords being the only founders of benefices, and consequently the only patrons. ...
- The right to present or nominate a clergyman to a church living such as a rectory, vicarage or deanery. An advowson is held by a patron, who may be an individual or an institution, clerical or secular. ...
- 1) The right to appoint a priest to a parish church. Advowsons could be held by laymen and were treated as real property which could be inherited, sold, exchanged, or even divided between co-heiresses (one appointing on one occasion, another on the next, and so on. ...
- A person holding the right of advowson, i.e. an advowee.
- The guardianship or patronage of an ecclesiastical house or benefice
