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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