Annates

In ecclesiastical law. First fruits paid out of spiritual benefices to the pope, being the value of one year's profit. ANNEXATION (Lat. ad, to, nexwre, to bind). The union of one thing to another. It conveys the idea, properly, of fastening a smaller thing to a larger; an incident to a principal. It has been applied to denote the union of Texas to the United States. Actual annexation includes every movement by which a chattel can be joined or united to the freehold. Constructive annexation is the union of such things as have been holden parcel of the realty, but which are not actually annexed, fixed, or fastened to the freehold. Shep. Touch. 469; Amos & F. Fixt. 2. See "Fixtures." ANNI ET TEMPORA (Lat.) Years and terms. An old title of the Year Books. 9 London, Leg. Obs. 323.

First-fruits paid out of spiritual benefices to the pope, being the value of one year's profit. Cowell.

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In English ecclesiastical law. The first year's profits of a spiritual preferment, anciently paid by the English clergy to the pope, later to the crown; first fruits.

Inecclesiasticallaw. First fruits paid out of spiritual benefices to the pope, so called because the value of one year’s profit was taken as their rate.

Annates. L. Lat. [from annus, a year.] In English ecclesiastical law. The first year's whole profits of a spiritual preferment, anciently paid by the Englisb clergy to the pope, but in the reign ef Henry VIII. transferred to the crown; ca Jled in modem \&w first fruits, Spelman. Termes de la ley. 1 Bl. Com. 284. See First fruits.

eccl. law. First fruits paid out of spiritual benefices to the pope, being the value of one year’s profit.