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Tenure by divine service

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

Black's Law Dictionary

where an ecclesiastical corporation, sole or aggregate, holds land by a certain divine service; as, to say prayers on a certain day in every year, "or to distribute in aimes to an hundred poore men an hundred pence at such a day."

Litt. § 137.