Lay Impropriator
Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1891)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
Lay rector, to whom the greater tithes are reserved, the lesser going to the vicar. 1 Burn, Ecc. Law, 75, 76.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
A layman holding the appropriation of a benefice. See Impropriation.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
In English ecclesiastical law. <A lay person holding a spiritual appropriation. 3 Steph. Comm. 72