INDUCTION

In ecclesiastical law. In• duction ls the ceremony by which an incumbent who has been Instituted to a benefice Is vested with full po e ion of all the prof• Its ~elonging to the church, so that he becomes seised of the temporalities of the church, and Is then complete incumbent. It ls performed by virtue of II. mandate of induction directed by the bishop to the:u-chdeacon, who either performs it in person, or directs his precept to one or more other clergymen to do it. Phillim. Ecc. Law, 477. [s. 626]