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Definition of Advowsons

Advowson
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.

Meaning of Advowsons from wikipedia

- opportunity was used very largely to secure advowsons for party purposes and for party trusts.". The purchase of advowsons to ensure that a parish became an Anglo-Catholic...
- The Advowsons Act 1708 (7 Ann. c. 18) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain. Advowson is the right to nominate someone to a bishop to be appointed...
- Sometime in the period, 1199–1205, he confirmed to St. Mary's, York the advowsons of the churches of Gainford and Stainton, Durham and Stokesley, Yorkshire...
- Feoffees for Impropriations, an organisation that bought benefices and advowsons so that Puritans could be appointed to them, was dissolved. Laud prosecuted...
- temporalities or his nominee, the patron and his successors in title, held the advowson (right to nominate a candidate for the post subject to the approval of...
- Amends the Statute of Westminster 1285 to clarify the proceedings of Advowsons in case of Quare impedit. Section 2(3) was repealed by Group 2 of Part...
- manor of Souldern, had given the advowson of the parish to the Benedictine Eynsham Abbey. The abbot retained the advowson until the abbey was suppressed...
- clergy. In the 19th century Charles Simeon established a trust to purchase advowsons and install evangelical priests. Patronage thus has p****ing relevance...
- held the advowson, and the fourth had no well-defined place (unless his father possessed, as was often the case, more than two vacant advowsons). As the...
- Trust is an Anglican body formed in 1877 by Alfred Peache. It owns the advowson (the right to appoint the vicar) for a number of Anglican churches in England...