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 Ch. 11. were appointed to remedy: epecially as, if any profits are to arie from putting in a curate and living at a ditance from the parih, the appropriator, who is the real paron, has undoubtedly the elder title to them. When the ordinary is alo the patron, and confers the living, the preentation and intitution are one and the ame act, and are called a collation to a benefice. By intitution or collation the church is full, o that there can be no freh preentation till another vacancy, at leat in the cae of a common patron; but the church is not full againt the king, till induction: nay, even if a clerk is intituted upon the king's preentation, the crown may revoke it before induction, and preent another clerk. Upon intitution alo the clerk may enter on the paronage houe and glebe, and take the tithes; but he cannot grant or let them, or bring an action for them, till induction.

is performed by a mandate from the bihop to the arch-deacon, who uually iues out a precept to other clergymen to perform it for him. It is done by giving the clerk corporal poeion of the church, as by holding the ring of the door, tolling a bell, or the like; and is a form required by law, with intent to give all the parihioners due notice, and ufficient certainty of their new miniter, to whom their tithes are to be paid. This therefore is the invetiture of the temporal part of the benefice, as intitution is of the piritual. And when a clerk is thus preented, intituted, and inducted into a rectory, he is then, and not before, in full and complete poeion, and is called in law perona imperonata, or paron imparonee.

rights of a paron or vicar, in his tithes and eccleiatical dues, fall more properly under the econd book of thee commentaries: and as to his duties, they are principally of eccleiatical cognizance; thoe only excepted which are laid upon him by tatute. And thoe are indeed o numerous, that it is impracticable to recite them here with any tolerable concienes or accuracy. Some of them we may remark, as they arie in the progres of Rh