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.]
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). (Waugh, Scott. England in the Reign of Edward III, 237) The right of presentation to a church or benefice. (Sayles, George O. The King's Parliament of England, 143) Patronage of a church living; the legal right to present a candidate for installation in a vacant ecclesiastical office. (Hogue, Arthur R. Origins of the Common Law, 255)
Right to present a clergyman to a vacant benefice. In 1275, the lord of the manor of Hemyock, Sir John de Hydone, had the advowson of St Mary's Church Hemyock.
in English ecclesiastical law, the right of presentation to a vacant benefice.
The right of patronage of a church, with the right to nominate a clergyman of a parish (recognized in English law until 1898)
The right to appoint a priest to a parish church, or living. The patron must not take money for presenting to a living, neither may a clergyman buy one. Advowsons may not be sold by auction except as part of a large estate.
the right in English law of presenting a nominee to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice
The right of presentation to an ecclesiastical benefice.
Right to appoint one in holy orders to an ecclesiastical benefice. Treated under English civil law as a piece of property which can be transferred by sale or grant.
The entitlement to present or nominate a candidate to the position of incumbent to a vacant benefice.
or advocation is the right of a patron to present a person to a church living or benefice airschipe see 'heirship' alba firme The Latin term for blench ferme, whereby lands are held for a 'peppercorn rent'
the right of patronage or presentation to a church benefice.
The right to apppoint a priest to a benefice, especially a parish church (Hey 1998 p 2).
