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Recto De Advocatione Ecclesiæ

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1910)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

A writ which lay at common law where a man had right of advowson of a church, and, the parson dying, a stranger had presented. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 30. RECTO DE CUSTODIA TERRAE ET haeredis. A writ of right of ward of the land and heir. Abolished.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

A writ which lay at common law, where a man had right of advowson of a chutch, and, the parson dying, a stranger had presented. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 30.