Impropriation
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In ecclesiastical law
The act of employing the revenues of a church living to one's own use. It is also a parsonage or ecclesiastical living in the hands of a layman, or which descends by inheritance. Tech. Diet.