Commenda

Lat. [i. e. eccleaia commendata, vel cti Htodia ecclesia alicui commis9a; a church commended, or the care of a church committed to any one.] In English ecclesiastical law. A living or benifice commended by the crown to the care of a clerk, to hold till a proper pastor is provided for it; otherwise called a commenda retinere.

1 £L Com, 393.

When a clerk is promoted to a bishopric, all his other preferments are void the instant he is consecrated. But he is sometimes allowed, by favor of the crown, to retain or hold them in commendam, as it is termed, from which these livings have obtained the name of commendam. Id, ibid.

3 Steph, Com. 87.

Termes de la ley. Cowell, By the recent statute, 6 <fe 7 Will. IV. c.

77, a.

18, no commendam can in future be granted.