Impetration
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The obtaining anything by prayer or petition. In the ancient English statutes, it signifies a preobtaining of churches benefices in England from the church of Rome, which belonged to the gift of the king or other lay patrons.