Reading-In
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
In English ecclesiastical law, a new incumbent of a benefice is required to read, within two months of actual possession, the morning and evening prayers, and declare his unfeigned assent and consent thereto publicly in the church, before the congregation. He is also to read the thirty-nine articles in the church in the time of common prayer, and to declare his unfeigned assent thereunto, within two months after induction; and to read in his church, within three months after institution or collation, the declaration appointed by the act of uniformity, and also the certificate of his having subscribed it before the bishop. The observance of the above forms by a new incumbent constitutes what is termed "reading in." See Rog. Ecc. Law; Burns Ecc. Law.