Pension

A stated allowance out of the publlc treasury granted by government to an individual or to his representatives, for hls valuable services to the country or in compensation for loss or damage sustained by him in the public service. Price v. Society for Savings, 64 Conn. 362, 30 Atl. 139, 42 Am. St. Rep. 198; Manning v. Spry, 121 Iowa, 191, 96 N. W. 873; Frisbie v. U. S„ 157 U. S. 160, 15 Sup. Ct. 586, 39 L. Ed. 657.

In English practice. An annual payment made by each member of the inns of court. Cowell; Holthouse. Also an assembly of the members of the society of Gray's Inn, to consult of their affairs. In the civil, Scotch, and Spanish law. A rent; an .annual rent.

— Pension of churches. In English ecclesiastical law. Certain sums of money paid to clergymen in lieu of tithes. A spiritual person may sue in the spiritual court for a pension originally granted and confirmed by the ordinary, but, where it is granted by a temporal person to a clerk, he cannot; as, if one grant an annuity to a parson, he must sue for it in the temporal courts. Oro. Eliz. 675.

— Pension writ. A peremptory order against a member of an inn of court who is in arrear for his pensions, (that is, for his periodical dues,) or for other duties. Cowell.