Resignation
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
Relinquishment or surrender, by an officer, representar tive, or trustee, of his authority or trust; or by a beneficed clergyman, of his living; and so in other cases of a personal privilege or power. In ecclesiastical law, resignation is the yielding up a benefice into the hands of the ordinary, called, by the canonists, renunciation; and though it is all one in nature with the word surrender, yet it is, by use, restrained to yielding up a spiritual living to the bishop, as surrender is the giving up of temporal land into the hands of the lord. Jacob. Resignation bond. A "bond or other engagement in writing taken by a patron from the clergyman presented by him to a living, to resign the benefice at a future period. This is allowable in certain cases under Stat. 9 Geo. IV. ch.
94, passed in 1828. 2 Steph. Com. 721.