De Jure Decimarum
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
ORIGINEM ducens de jure patronatus, tunc cognltio spectat at legem civilem, i. e., communem. With regard to the right of tithes, deducing its origin from the right of the patron, then the cognizance of them belongs to the civil law, — ^that is, the common law.
Godb. 63.