Appropriation

Appropriation, the annexing of some ecclesiastical benefice to the proper and perpetual use of some religious house, etc., just as impropriation is the annexing a benefice to the use of a lay person or corporation. Appropriation may be severed and the church become disappropriate, if a patron or appropriator present a clerk who is properly instituted and inducted, for he would then become complete parson; also, if a corporation possessing the benefice is dissolved, the parsonage becomes disappropriate at Common Law, Phill. Eccl. Law.