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Commendators

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Commendators. During Popery the commendator was the person by whom the fruits of a benefice were levied during a vacancy. He was properly a steward or trustee; but the Pope, who was entitled to grant the higher benefices in commendam, abused the power, and gave them to commendators for their lives, Bell's Dict.

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