advowson

• It also heard issues of disturbance of advowson, a complex of rights to income from a church and to the selection of a parson for the church [assize of darrein [last] presentment]. —  Our Legal Heritage, 5th Ed.
• In 1874 the advowson was sold to a private person. —  The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City ; Its Medieval Remains
• It could be bought and sold and inherited like an advowson, or right to dispose of a cure of souls in the English Church, or of a commission in the English army. —  The Theory of Social Revolutions
• But close to the parsonage, on the brow of a hill, rose an old ruin with one tower left, and this, with half the country round it, had once belonged to the clergyman's family; but all had been sold,--all gone piece by piece, you see, my dear, except the presentation to the living (what they call the advowson was sold too), which had been secured to the last of the family. —  The Caxtons — Complete
• In the case of an advowson, the use is public, and the right cannot be turned to any private benefit or emolument. —  Select Speeches of Daniel Webster, 1817-1845

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