Simony
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
In English ecclesiastical law. The corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice for money, gift or reward.
2 Bl. Comm. 278.
An unlawful contract for presenting a clergyman to a benefice. The buying or selling of ecclesiastical preferments or of things pertaining to the ecclesiastical order.
Hob. 167. See State v. Buswell, 40 Neb. 158, 58 N. W. 728, 24 In R. A. 68.