Definition of Collation To A Benefice

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Definitions from Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition and Ballentine's Law Dictionary as are available for each term in each dictionary.
  • Collation to a benefice
    Ballentine's Law Dictionary

    The conferring of a benefice by a bishop.

  • Collation To A Benefice
    Black's Law Dictionary: 2nd Edition

    In ec cleslastical law. This occurs where the bishop and patron are one and the same person, in which case the bishop cannot present the clergyman to himself, but does, by the one act of collation or conferring the benefice, the whole that is done in common cases both by presentation and institution. 2 BL Comin. 22.