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Merton, Statute of

was in connection with provision (2) that the barons declared against any alteration, notwithstanding the request of the bishop that the law should be altered. 'Omnes Comites et Barones,' runs the statute, 'una voce responderunt quod nolunt

Jus patronatus

Jus patronatus, a commission granted by a bishop to some persons, usually his chancellor and others, of competent learning, to inquire who is the rightful patron

Litigious Church

Litigious Church, where two presentations to a church are offered to the bishop upon the same avoidance, Jenk. Cent. 11.

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Lindesfern, or lindesfarne

Lindesfern, or lindesfarne, Holy Island, in Northumberland, which was formerly a bishop's see, 4 Inst. 288.

Letters of request

(a). See also (English) Church Discipline Act, 1840 (3 & 4Vict. c. 86), s. 13, by which a bishop may send a case by letters of request to the Court of Appeal to the province. (2) The

Letter-missive

attachment, etc., which cannot affect a Lord of Parliament. See 1 Dan. Ch. Pr. Also, for electing a bishop, a letter-missive from the sovereign is sent to the dean and chapter, containing the name of the person

Lay investitute of Bishops

Lay investitute of Bishops, putting a bishop into possession of the temporalities belonging to his bishopric.

Lay investiture

Lay investiture, means the ceremony of placing a bishop in possession of lands, money revenues, and other diocesan temporalities, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 896.

Lawful

permissive only, but if the words are used to effectuate a legal right, they are compulsory, Julius v. Bishop of Oxford, (1880) 5 App Cas 182; see Craies, or Maxwell or Hardcastle on Statute Law.

Lapse

In such case there is a devolution of the rights of patronage from a neglectful patron to the bishop as ordinary, to the metropolitan an superior, and to the sovereign as patron paramount of all the benefices

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