ADVO WSO N. A right of presentation to a church or benefice.
He who possesses this right is called the patron or advocate. When there is no patron, or he neg lects to exercise his right within six months, it is called a lapse, and a title Is given to the ordinary to collate to a church: when a presentation is made by one who has no right, it Is called a usurpation.
Advowsons are of different kinds; as ad vowson appendant, when it depends upon a manor, etc.; advowson in gross, when it belongs to a person and not to a manor; ad vowson presentative, where the patron pre sents to the bishop; advowson donative, where the king or patron puts the clerk into possession without presentation; advowson collative, where the bishop himself is a pa tron; advowson of the moiety of the church, where there are two several patrons and two incumbents in the same church; a moie ty of advowson, where two must join the presentation of one incumbent ; advowson of religious houses, that which is vested in the person who founded such a house. 2 Bla.
Cora. 21; Mirehouse, Advowsons; Comyns, Dig. Advowson, Quare Impedit; Bacon, Abr. Simony; Burns, Eccl. Law. See 2 Poll. & Maid. 135.
An advowson in modern times and in or dinary language has, no doubt, been used to mean the perpetual right of presentation to a church or ecclesiastical benefice. An ad vowson in the limited sense of the word may be separated from the manor to which it is attached and perpetual right of presentation to a church may be severed from the lord ship of the manor. Where an almshouse has been established by a lord of the manor, which afterwards became vested in the Crown by attainder, the charity also vested in the Crown by attainder and the right of nominating a master was analogous to an advowson separable from the manor and capable of being passed by grant from the Crown subsequent to the attainder; 22 L. J. Ch. 846.