Benefice

BENEFICE, eccles. law. In its most extended sense, any ecclesiastical preferment or dignity; but in its more limited sense, it is applied only to rectories and vicarages.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.

Mentioned in

Advowson
Annates
Appropriation
avoidance
Avowee
Beneficio primo ecclesiastico habendo
Cession
Coke, Sir Edward
Collation
Comendam
Commendators
For example
Impetration
Incumbent
Induction
Institution
lapse
Levari facias
Magna Charta

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