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Sine assensu capituli

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910)

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

A writ for a church corporation to recover its lands wrongfully conveyed.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Without the consent of the chapter.

In old English practice. A writ which lay where a dean, bishop, prebendary, abbot, prior, or master of a hospital aliened the lands holden in the right of his house, abbey, or priory, without the consent of the chapter; in which case his successor might have this writ. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 194. I; Cowell.
Defined under Sine in Black's Law Dictionary.