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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.