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Collative advowson. See ADVOWSON....
Sus. Per coll
Sus. Per coll. When indictments were in Latin, this abbreviation for suspendatur per collum-'let him be hanged by the neck'-was the usual indorsement by the clerk of arraigns in the case of a capital sentence. At the present day indorsements are in English, and no special form of words is used....
Advowson
Advowson [fr. advocare, Lat.], a right of presentation to, or the patronage of, a church or spiritual living; the person possessed of this right or patronage being called the patron or advocate (patronus aut advocatus), on account of his obligation to protect and defend the privileges of the particular benefice. An advowson is in the nature of a temporal property and spiritual trust. For the origin and history of advowsons, consult Mirehouse on Advowsons, pp. 1-6.There are several kinds of advowsons, viz.:--(I.) Presentative advowsons, subdivided into,Appendant.In gross, andPartly appendant, and partly in gross.(II.) Collative advowsons.(I.) A presentative advowson appendant is a right of patronage annexed to the possession of some corporeal hereditament. Thus, where an advowson has immemorially passed together with a manor or reputed manor by a simple grant of such manor, without particularly referring to the advowson, it is then said to be appendant, i.e., annexed to the demesnes of ...
Coll
To embrace...
Collative
Passing or held by collation said of livings of which the bishop and the patron are the same person...
Colling
An embrace dalliance...
Collingly
With embraces...
Presentative
Having the right of presentation or offering a clergyman to the bishop for institution as advowsons are presentative collative or donative...
Amrygoll
Amrygoll [am-rhy-coll, total loss], loss of property, Anc. Inst. Wales....
Array, Military Commission of
Array, Military Commission of. Previous to the reign of Henry VIII., in order to protect the kingdom from domestic insurrections or foreign invasions, it was usual from time to time for our princes to issue commissions of array, and send into every county officers in whom they could confide, to muster, array, or set in military order the inhabitants of every district. The form of the commission was settled by 5 Hen. 4, so as to prevent the insertion therein of any new penal clauses, Rushworth, Hist. Coll., vol. Iv., pp. 662, 667....
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