PRESENTATION

In ecclesiastical law. The act of a patron or proprietor of a living in offering or presenting a clerk to the ordinary to be instituted in the benejjce. -Presentation office. The office of the lord chancellor's official, the secretary of present a• tions, who conducts all correspondence having reference to the twelve canonries and six hundred and fifty Iivings in the gift of · the lord chancellor, and draws and i ues the fiats of appointment. Sweet. [s. 940]