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Land

division is horizontal, vertical or made in any other way), and other corporeal hereditaments; also a manor, an advowson, and a rent and other incorporeal hereditaments, and an easement, right, privilege, or benefit in, over, or derived

Impeditor

Impeditor, means a person who interferes with a patron's right of advowson, i.e., the right to appoint a clerk to a benefice, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 756.

Fruit fallen

enjoyed by itself. Thus, a next presentation, when a vacancy has occurred, is a fruit fallen from the advowson.

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Darrein presentment

Darrein presentment, assize of, lay only where a man had an advowson by descent from his ancestors; it was abolished by the (English) Real Property Limitation Act, 1833 (3 &

Coparceners or parceners

the eldest sister were dead, her issue should not choose first, but the next sister. But if an advowson descended in coparcenary, and the sisters could not agree in the presentation, the eldest and her issue, nay,

Benefice

Geo. 5, No. 1), within three years from the date of registration of the transfer, to purchase the advowson from the new patron, in which case it will be vested in the Diocesan Board of Patronage. The

Appendant

Appendant, a thing of inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is more worthy; as an advowson, common, etc., which may be appendant to a manor, common of fishing to a freehold, a seat in

Presentative

Having the right of presentation or offering a clergyman to the bishop for institution as advowsons are presentative collative or donative

Fee-simple

for omne majus continet in se minus. It may be enjoyed not only in land, but also in advowsons, commons, estovers, and other hereditaments as well as in personalty, as an annuity or dignity, and also in

Super-institution

the uncertainty to whom tithes shall be paid, and the like), this method has been discouraged, Mirehouse on Advowsons, 189.

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