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Contra formam collationis

Contra formam collationis, a writ that issued where lands given in perpetual alms to any late houses of religion, as to an abbot and convent, or to the warden or master

Gerontocomium

Gerontocomium [fr. Gk., an old man, and to take care of], an alms-house for old people. Their managers are called gerontocomi.

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Aumone, tenure in, where lands are given in alms to some church or religious house, upon condition that a service or prayers shall be offered at certain … Aumone, tenure in, where lands are given in alms to some church or religious house, upon condition that a service or prayers shall be offered at certain times for the repose of the

Cessavit

house had lands given to it, on condition of performing some certain spiritual services, as reading prayers, giving alms, etc., and neglected it; in either of which cases, if the cesser or neglect had continued for two … or other services neglected or ceased to perform his services for two years together, or where a religious house had lands given to it, on condition of performing some certain spiritual services, as reading prayers, giving alms,

Eleemosynaria

Eleemosynaria, the place in a religious house where the common alms were deposited, and thence by the almoner distributed to the poor. … Eleemosynaria, the place in a religious house where the common alms were deposited, and thence by the almoner distributed to the poor.

Vagrants

or placing himself or herself in any public place, street, highway, Court, or passage, to beg, or gather alms, or procuring children so to do, see Mathers v. Penfold, (1915) 1 KB 514. (6) Every person relieved, … disorderly persons,' so that any justice of the peace may commit them (being convicted before him) to the house of correction to hard labour for not more than one month subject to an appeal to the sessions,

Tenure

referred to. The old Saxon ecclesiastical tenures, which were continued under the Normans, are these: (1) Frankalmoigne [free alms], by which religious corporations and their successors held lands of the donor, without any service other than the … of Property Act, 1922, s. 136. (2) Tenure in burgage [burgus, Lat.] (now abolished, see infra) is where houses, or lands which were formerly the site of houses, in an ancient borough are held of some lord

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