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

Black's Law Dictionary

Inspection; superintendence ; direction; regulation. A power given by law to the founders of all eleemosynary corporations.

2 Kent, Comm. 300-303; 1 Bl. Comm. 480, 481.

In England, the vis-Ration of ecclesiastical corporations belongs to the ordinary.

Id. See Trustees of Union Baptist Ass'n v. Hunn, 7 Tex. Civ. App. 249, 26 S. W. 755; Alien v. McKean, 1 Fed. Cas. 498.