Simony
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In ecclesiastical law
The selling and buying of holy orders or an ecclesiastical benefice. Bac. Abr. By "simony" is also understood an unlawful agreement to receive a temporal reward for something holy or spiritual.
Code, 1. 3. 31; Ayliffe, Par. 496.