advowson

[Norm. Fr. avoeson, avoerie; Fr. avouerie, fr. avouer to grant, to allow; avoué = an attorney. Low Lat. advoatio; Cla . Lat. advocatio =a summoning legal a istance, the bar, .; Low Lat. advoo; Cla . Lat. ad voco = to call or summon.] [ADVOCATE.] Law The right of presentation to a vacant benefice, what is called in Scotland patronage . [PATRONAGE.) This is of three kinds: (1) Presentation , when the patron has a right to present a clergyman to the bishop for institution; (2) collation , when the bishop is himself the patron of the living; and (3) dona tion, when the king or a subject, acting under the royal licence, founds a church or chapel on the footing that it shall be subject to his visitation only, and not be placed under the bishop, and that he (the patron) shall have the power of putting a clergyman in it without presentation, institution, or induction. Hence advowsons are cla ified as presentative , coll a tive, and donative. The reason why they were generally vested in lords of the several manors was that it was in most cases their ancestors, or at least predece ors more or le remote, who originally built the church, or were "advocates" of ecclesiastical privileges. [ADVOCATE.] An advowson still attached to a manor is called an appendant. If, however, it be once sold to a purchaser it ceases in all future time to be appendant, and is said to be in gro , or at large. Advowsons, originally trusts, are now considered heritable property. "The advowson and right of next and perpetual presentation to the rectory of of the present incumbent, subject to the life nbent, now in his his seventy-first year."- Advertisement in Times , 1875.