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Advocatione Decimarum

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Black's (1910), Black's (1891)

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

A writ which lay for tithes, demanding the fourth part or upwards, that belonged to any church.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A happens himself to be the patron, in which writ which lay for tithes, demanding the case (presentation being impossible, or unfourth part or upwards, that belonged to any necessary) he does by one act, which is. church, termed “collation,” or conferring the benefice, all that is usually done by the separate