Crossword clues for advowson
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Advowson \Ad*vow"son\ (?; 277), n. [OE. avoweisoun, OF. avo["e]son, fr. L. advocatio. Cf. Advocation.] (Eng. Law) 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.]
Note: The benefices of the Church of England are in every
case subjects of presentation. They are nearly 12,000
in number; the advowson of more than half of them
belongs to private persons, and of the remainder to the
crown, bishops, deans and chapters, universities, and
colleges.
--Amer. Cyc.
Wiktionary
n. (context British legal English) The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church.
WordNet
n. the right in English law of presenting a nominee to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice
Wikipedia
Advowson (or "patronage") is the right in English law of a patron (avowee) to present to the diocesan bishop (or in some cases the ordinary if not the same person) a nominee for appointment to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice or church living, a process known as presentation (jus praesentandi, Latin: "the right of presenting"). 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 (subject to episcopal approval), and such right was often originally held by the lord of the manor of the principal manor within the parish.
Usage examples of "advowson".
Clerk Advowson at his reading-desk below called the number of the first hymn and the service began.
I saw that the parish-clerk, Mr Advowson, who was crossing from the church to his house just over the road, was hailing me as if he had something important to say.
They had lied to Mr Advowson, and it was too late for me to disguise the truth from my mother.
And yet it seemed to me that Mr Advowson, who carefully avoided my gaze, was holding something back.
I looked at Mr Advowson who, as if to confirm the conclusion I had drawn, glanced away with an embarrassed little cough.
I believed I understood why she was so frightened of going to the workhouse or even, as Mr Advowson had told me, revealing her legal parish of settlement: this would enable her enemy to find her.
Mr Advowson was groping in the darkness amongst a pile of huge old registers.
Before she could answer, however, I remembered something she had just said and a sudden and terrifying thought occurred to me: Mr Advowson had said that it was Hinxman who had removed the entry from the vestry and I tried now to recall if Sukey had seen him on that distant day when he and Emma tried to abduct me.
Mr Advowson, that you were interested in the Huffams he might have told you about the chest from the old chapel where we were just now.
No-one recognised me, though I saw Mr Advowson crossing the High-street from his house to the church, and reflected that he was returning to the vestry after his dinner.
Mr Advowson had described of its composition could bear a particular explanation.
Henry was strong enough only six years after the death of Thomas to win control over a vast amount of important property by insisting that questions of advowson should be tried in the secular courts, and that the murderers of clerks should be punished by the common law.
No Papist could purchase a freehold or lease for more than thirty years, or inherit from an intestate Protestant, nor from an intestate Catholic, nor dwell in Limerick or Galway, nor hold an advowson, nor buy an annuity for life.
William Gibbs, who purchased the advowson of Otterbourne for a sum that Sir William applied to the endowment of Hursley, so as to compensate for the loss of the tithes of Otterbourne.
The Park, the advowson of the living, and the greater part of the parish, were bought by Joseph Baxendale, Esq.