What does plenarty mean?
Plenarty means (law, historical) The state of a benefice when occupied..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(law, historical) The state of a benefice when occupied..
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.
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Plenarty means (law, historical) The state of a benefice when occupied..
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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.
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