Resignation Bond

In ecclesiastical law. A bond given by an incumbent to resign on a certain contingency. It may be conditioned to resign for good and sufficient reason, and therefore lawful; e. g., to resign if he take a second benefice, or on request, if patron present his son or kinsman when of age to take the living, etc. Cro. Jac. 249, 274. But equity will generally relieve the incumbent. 1 Rolle, Abr. 443. RESIGNATION EST JURIS PROPRII spontanea refutatio. Resignation is the spontaneous relinquishment of one's own right. Godb. 284.

_ In Ecclesiastical which he owes to them. La. Code 3051. Law. A bond given by an Incumbent to re- A forced respite takes place when a part sign on a certain contingency. It may be of the creditors refuse to accept the debtor’s conditioned to resign for good and sufficient and therefore proposal, and when the latter is obliged to reason, lawful, e. g. to resign if he take a second benefice, or on request, if compel them, by judicial authority, to cona patron present his son or kinsman when sent to what the others have determined in of age to take the living, etc. Cro. Jac. 249, the cases directed by law. 274. But equity will generally relieve the A voluntary respite takes place when all incumbent; 1 Rolle, Abr. 443. the creditors consent to the proposal of the debtor to pay in a limited time the whole or

A bond or other engagement in writing taken by a patron from the clergyman presented by him to a living, to resign the benefice at a future period. This is allowable in certain cases under St. 9 Geo. IV. c. 94, passed in 1828. 2 Steph. Comm. 721.

Defined under Resignation in Black's Law Dictionary.