PENSION
Categories: Criminal Law
Definition (1910 Edition)
Origin: Civil Law
PENDENTES. In the civil law. The fruits of the earth not yet separated from the ground; the fruits hanging by the roots.
clergymen in lieu of tithes. A spiritual person may sue in the spiritual court for a pension otiginally granted and confirmed by the ordinary, but, where it is granted by a temporal person to a clerk, he cannot; as, if one grant an annuity to a parson, he must sue for it in the temporal courts. Cro. Bliz. 675.—Pension writ. A peremptory order against a member of an inn of court who is in arrear for his
clergymen in lieu of tithes. A spiritual person may sue in the spiritual court for a pension otiginally granted and confirmed by the ordinary, but, where it is granted by a temporal person to a clerk, he cannot; as, if one grant an annuity to a parson, he must sue for it in the temporal courts. Cro. Bliz. 675.—Pension writ. A peremptory order against a member of an inn of court who is in arrear for his
Source: Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd Edition (1910) — Public Domain.
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