ADVOWSON

Advowson

Advowson is the right in English law of a patron to present to the Diocesan Bishop a nominee for appointment to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice or church living, a process known as presentation . The word derives, via French, from the Latin advocare, from vocare "to call" plus ad, "to, towards", thus a "summoning". In effect an advowson is the right to nominate a person to be parish priest, and such right was often originally held by the lord of the manor of the principal manor within the parish.

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advowson

Noun

  1. The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church.


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