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Procuration

an agency, the administration of the business of another; also moneys which parish priests pay yearly to the bishop or archdeacon, ratione visitationis; these are also called proxies, and it is said that there are three sorts--ratione

Proxies

Proxies, annual payments by the parochial clergy to the bishop, etc., on visitation.

Quare incumbravit

Quare incumbravit, a writ which lay against a bishop, who, within six months after the vacation of a benefice, conferred it on his clerk, whilst two others

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Quot

Quot, one-twentieth part of the movable estate of a person dying in Scotland, anciently due to the bishop of the diocese wherein he had resided.

Regale episcoporum

Regale episcoporum, the temporal rights and privileges of a bishop.

Sede plena

Sede plena, when a bishop's see is not vacant.

Regalia facere

Regalia facere, to do homage or fealty to the sovereign by a bishop when he is invested with the regalia.

Reservation

Reservation, a keeping aside or providing. See SACRAMENT. Reservation of the Sacrament is an offence punishable by deprivation, Oxrofd (Bishop) v. Henly, 1909 P. 319. As to a reservation in a conveyance and how it differs...

Resignation

is synonymous with surrender, yet it is by use restrained to yielding up a spiritual living to the bishop, as surrender is the giving up of temporal land into the hands of the lord. The act or

Restitutione temporalium

Restitutione temporalium, a writ addressed to the sheriff, to restore the temporalities of a bishopric to the bishop elected and confirmed, Fitz. N.B.169.

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