Tenure by divine service
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910)
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
A service tenure wherein the tenants performed religious services.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
where an ecclesiastical corporation, sole or aggregate, holds land by a certain divine service; as, to say prayers on a certain day in every year, "or to distribute in aimes to an hundred poore men an hundred pence at such a day." Litt. § 137.
Defined under Tenure in Black's Law Dictionary.