 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1867 - 522 pages
...to the next presentation to ecclesiastical benefices ie forfeited by simony and by lapse. Simony is the corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice for money, gift, or reward. Lapee ia where the patron neglects to present to a benefice within six months after... | |
 | Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1867 - 526 pages
...to the next presentation to ecclesiastical benuficr.su forfeited by simony and by lapse. Simony is the corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice for money, gift, or reward. Lapse is where the patron neglects to present to a benefice within six months after... | |
 | John Oswald - English language - 1868 - 600 pages
...stand up * Simony, (a Simon Magus, who wished to purchase the power of conferring the Holy Spirit, Acts viii.) The crime of buying or selling ecclesiastical...presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice tor money or reward. By Stat. 31. Elizabeth, c. vi. severe penalties are enacted against this crime.... | |
 | Law - 504 pages
...to the appointment of guardians. (F. Bk. 116; 4 Exam. Chron. 303.) VI. What is simony ? ANS. It is the corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice for money, gift, or reward, contrary to certain statutes ; more specifically it is the offence of buying or selling... | |
 | Alexander Mansfield Burrill - Dictionaries, Law - 1870 - 674 pages
...c. 9, § 1. Spelman, voc. Siminellus. Cowell. SIMONY. [Lat. simonia,] In English ecclesiastical law. The corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice, for money, gift, or reward. 2 £1. Com. 278. — An unlawful contract for presenting a clergyman to a benefice.... | |
 | Orby Shipley - Christianity - 1872 - 534 pages
...SimonianK. A name of infamy applied to the Nestorians, after Simon Magus, the first heretic. Simony. The corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice, for money, gift, or reward. Simple, v. feasts, Roman. Simple, Benefice. v. Benefice Simple. Simple, Prebend, v.... | |
 | Richard Hallilay - Law - 1873 - 216 pages
...edit. ; Hallilay's Digest, 177, 7th edit.) Q.—What constitute's the offence of simony ? A.—It is the corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice for money, gift, or reward ; so called from the resemblance it is said to bear to the sin of Simon Magus: (1 Steph.... | |
 | William Blackstone, David Mitchell Aird - Law - 1873 - 386 pages
...the patron to present, and to the Crown by the neglect of the metropolitan. 3. By simony, which is the corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice for money, gift, or reward. 4. By breach, or non-performance of a condition annexed to the estate, whether erpressed... | |
 | Select thoughts, Edwin Davies (D.D.) - 1875 - 858 pages
...establish them upon a basis firm as the everlasting hills.— Dr. Price. SIMONY— Defined. Simony is the corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice for money, gift, or reward. It is so called from the supposed resemblance it is said to bear to the sin of Simon... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1877 - 640 pages
...prosecuted, and generally flourish on the means furnished by their dupes entirely unmolested. VIII. Simony, or the corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice for gift or reward, may also be considered an offence against religion ; but it is a crime which there... | |
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Simony is the corrupt presentation of any one to an ecclesiastical benefice for money, gift, or reward. 
