Advocatus est, ad quem pertinet jus advocationis alicujus ecclesiae, ut ad ecclesiam, nomine proprio, non alieno, possit praesentare

Dictionary: 
Ballentine's Law Dictionary

A patron is one who has the right of presentation to a church and who can present to the church in his own name and not that of another.

Author: 
James A. Ballentine
Publisher: 
The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Year Published: 
1916
Genre: 
Law Dictionary