Terms vs Plenarty - What's the difference?
terms | plenarty |
(legal, historical) The state of a benefice when occupied.
* 1982 : Lay Authority and Reformation in the English Church , Robert E Rodes,
* 1811 : The Law Dictionary , Giles Jacob, Thomas Edlyne Tomlins,
As nouns the difference between terms and plenarty
is that terms is while plenarty is (legal|historical) the state of a benefice when occupied.plenarty
English
Noun
(-)- The plea that the benefice was full more than six months before the writ was purchased (called the plea of "plenarty" ) was a good affirmative defense.
- Plenarty', the abstract of the adjective ''plenus'', and is used in Common Law in matters of benefices, where a church is ''full'' of an incumbent; '''''Plenarty and vacation, or avoidance, being direct contraries.