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Presentation, the offering by the patron of a benefice to the ordinary of a person to be instituted to the benefice. It must be in writing (29 Car. 2, c. 3), and is in the nature of letters-missive to the ordinary.The sovereign, as protector ecclesi', is the patron paramount of all benefices which do not belong to other patrons, and usually presents by letters-patent (26 Hen. 8, c. 1; 1 Eliz. c. 1).As to other patrons, the right of presentation is sometimes confounded with that of nomination; but presentation is the offering a person to the bishop, while nomination is the offering such a person to the patron. These two rights may co-exist in different persons; thus where an advowson is vested in trustees or mortgagees they have the right of presentation, while the right of nomination is in the cestui que trust, or mortgagors, but the trustees or the mortgagee must judge of the qualification of the nominee, Mirehouse on Advowsons, 136.A bishop has, by Canon 95 (which abridged the period...
Next presentation
Next presentation, the right to present to an ecclesiastical benefice on the occurrence of the next vacancy. The purchase of the next presentation of a vacant benefice is illegal and void; and a clerk could not purchase a next presentation, even if the church were full, with a view of presenting himself. The sale of next presentations is now abolished and the transfer of rights of patronage of a benefice strictly regulated by the Benefices Act,1898, and the rules made thereunder, and further restricted by the (English) Benefices Act,1898 (Amendment) Measure, 1923 (14 & 15 Geo. 5, No. 1)....
Re presentation
The act of re presenting or the state of being presented again a new presentation as re presentation of facts previously stated...
Presentment
Presentment, a very comprehensive term, including not only presentments properly so called, but also inquisitions of office, and indictments by a grand jury; properly speaking, the notice taken by a grand jury of any offence, from their own knowledge or observation, without any bill of indictment laid before them at the suit of the Crown; as the presentment of a nuisance, a libel, and the like, upon which the officer of the Court must afterwards frame an indictment before the party presented can be put to answer it.Presentments are also made in courts-leet and courts-baron, before the stewards, 1 Steph. Com....
Presentment in relation to copyholds
Presentment in relation to copyholds. In order to give effect to a surrender out of Court it was for-merly necessary that due mention or 'presentment' of the transaction should be made at some subsequent Court.The surrender, and every other document relating to the title, on being presented in Court, had to be endorsed thus:- 'Presented and enrolled at a Court held for the manor of --, the -- day of --,' and then undersigned by at least two of the homage. The ceremony was dispensed with by with Copyhold Act, 1841, s. 89....
present sense impression
present sense impression : an out-of-court statement that describes or explains an event or condition and that was made during or immediately after the time the event or condition was perceived ;also : an exception to the hearsay rule allowing such a statement to be entered as evidence that what was asserted in the statement is true NOTE: Present sense impressions are excepted from the hearsay rule because the immediacy of the response is considered to render the statement trustworthy. “Look out, he's got a gun,” might be considered admissible as a present sense impression. ...
Presentable
Capable or admitting of being presented suitable to be exhibited represented or offered fit to be brought forward or set forth hence fitted to be introduced to another or to go into society as ideas that are presentable in simple language she is not presentable in such a gown...
Presents
Presents. 'These presents' is the phrase by which reference is made in a deed to the deed itself; e.g., 'And whereas the parties to these presents have agreed, etc.'...
presentence report
presentence report : a report prepared by a probation officer upon conviction of a defendant that assists the sentencing court in imposing an appropriate sentence NOTE: The information contained in a presentence report includes the defendant's prior criminal history (if any) and relevant (as financial) circumstances, the appropriate classification of the defendant and of the offense under the established classification system, the kinds and range of sentences and programs available, and the impact of the offense on the victim. ...
Presenter
Presenter, one who presents a presentee to a benefice....
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