Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist

Titular

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

Entitled.

Seems to be used both as adjective and noun. Titulars of erection. Persons who in Scotland, after the reformation, obtained grants from the crown of the monasteries and priories then erected into temporal lordsliips. Thus the titles formerly held by the religious houses, as well as the property of the lands, were conferred on these grantees, who were also called lords of erection and titulars of the teinds. Bell. They are the same as " impropriators " in England.

Wharton.