The Advowson: The History and Development of a Most Peculiar Property
Peter M. Smith
The right of patronage has for many centuries played a most significant role in the life English Church. In ways it is remarkable concept. What could be more spiritual than to present clerk who have care souls parish bishop admission and institution? Yet from around twelfth century this been regarded England as piece secular property, disputes concerning cognisable common-law courts. Coke tells us that an ‘incorporeall inheritance’, or, use modern term, ‘incorporeal hereditament’, which real property capable devolving heirs on intestacy yet takes no tangible form: invisible gives substantial power those possess it.
Ecclesiastical Law Journal