Beneficium
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In early feudal law. A. benefice; a permanent stipendiary estate; the same with what was afterwards called a “fief,” “feud,” or “fee.”
3 Steph. Comm. 77, note i; Spelman.
In the civil law. A benefit or favor; any particular privilege.
Dig. 1, 4, 3; Cod. 7, 71; Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 196.
A general term applied to ecclesiastical livings.
4 Bl. Comm. 107; Cowell.
BENEYFICIUM A®BSTINENDI. In Roman law, The power ofan heir to abstain from accepting the inheritance. Sandars, Just. Inst. (Sth Ed.) 214. by which a surety could, before paying the ereditor, compel him to make over to him the actions which belonged to the stipulator, so as to avail himself of them.
Sandars, Just. Inst. (Sth Ed.) 382, 351.