Visitation
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.