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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...
- Feoffees for Impropriations, an organisation that bought benefices and advowsons so that Puritans could be appointed to them, was dissolved. Laud prosecuted...
- 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...
- Impropriations. The feoffees would raise funds to purchase lay impropriations and advowsons, which would mean that the feoffees would then have the legal right to...
- Michael was buried at either Butley Priory in Suffolk of which he held the advowson, or the Church of St Mary the Virgin in Ewelme, Oxfordshire. James Howard...
- since common law protected the interests of the gentry, and tithes and advowsons were valuable property. Cromwell saw Barebone's Parliament as a temporary...
- wisely conceded a representative form of government. He purchased the Advowson of Rectory of Winwick, Cheshire from the Nostell Priory, Wakefield in 1433...
- 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...
- company owns and parti****tes in the patronage of eight parish church advowsons. The company is sole trustee of two major educational charities: Haberdashers'...