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Impropriation

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

In ecclesiastical law

The annexing an ecclesiastical benefice to the use of a lay person, whether individual or corporate, in the same way as appropriation is the annexing of any such benefice to the proper and perpetual use of some spiritual corporation, whether sole or aggregate, to enjoy forever.

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