Commendam - Law Dictionary Search Results
Commenda estfacultas recipiendi et retinendi beneficium contra jus positivum a suprema potestate
Commenda estfacultas recipiendi et retinendi beneficium contra jus positivum a suprema potestate. Moore, 905.-(A commendam is the power of receiving and retaining a benefice contrary to positive law, by supreme authority.)
Commendators
was properly a steward or trustee; but the Pope, who was entitled to grant the higher benefices in commendam, abused the power, and gave them to commendators for their lives, Bell's Dict.
Commendatory
Commendatory, he who holds a church living or preferment in commendam.
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Dempster
of form, 'And this I pronounce for doom.' For a length of years the office was held in commendam with that of the executioner; it has long been abolished. See Scott's Heart of Midlothian, ch. xxiii.
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