ADVOW'SON. The right of presentation to a church or ecclesiastical benefice in Eng land. Advowsons are either appendant or in gross. LortLs of manors were originally the only founders, and, of course, the only patrons of churches; and so long as a right of patronage continues annexed or appended to the manor, it is called an A. appendant. Such rights are conveyed with the manor as incident thereto, by a grant of the manor only, without adding any other words. But where the property of the A. has been once separated from the property of the manor by legal conveyance, it is called an A. in gross, or at large, and is annexed to the person of its owner, and not to his manor or lands. Advowsons are further divided into presentatire, collative, or donative. The first is where the patron has the right of presentation to the bishop or ordinary, and may demand of him to institute his clerk, if he find him canonically qualified. This is the most usual A. The second or collative A. is where the bishop and patron are one and the same person. In this case, the bishop cannot present to himself, but he does by the one act of collation the whole that is done in common cases by both presentation and institution. The third or
donative A. is when the sovereign, or a subject by his license, founds a church or chapel, and ordains that it shall be at the sole disposal of the patron, subject to his visitation only, and not that of the ordinary, and vested in the clerk by the patron's deed of donation, without presentation, institution, or induction. "This is said to have been anciently the only way of conferring ecclesiastical benefices in England; the method of institution by the bishop not being established more early than -the time of archbishop a Becket, in the reign of Henry IL"—Kerr's Blackstone, vol. ii. p. 20.
jEACUS, the fabled son of Jupiter and Egina, and king of Egina; father of Telamon and Peleus. He was so renowned for justice that not only men, but the gods, sought for his decisions. After death, Pluto made him one of the judges in Hades.