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 22 dily transfer, nor can corporal poeion be had of it. If the patron takes corporal poeion of the church, the church-yard, the glebe or the like, he intrudes on another man's property; for to thee the paron has an excluive right. The patronage can therefore be only conveyed by operation of law, by verbal grant, either oral or written, which is a kind of inviible, mental transfer: and being o veted, it lies dormant and unnoticed, till occaion calls it forth; when it produces a viible, corporeal fruit, by intitling ome clerk, whom, the patron hall pleae to nominate, to enter and receive bodily poeion of the lands and tenements of the church.

are either advowons appendant, or advowons in gros. Lords of manors being originally the only founders, and of coure the only patrons, of churches, the right of patronage or preentation, o long as it continues annexed to the poeion of the manor, as ome have done from the foundation of the church to this day, is called an advowon appendant : and it will pas, or be conveyed, together with the manor, as incident and appendant thereto, by a grant of the manor only, without adding any other words. But where the property of the advowon has been once eparated from the property of the manor, by legal conveyance, it is called an advowon in gros, or at large, and never can be appendant any more; but is for the future annexed to the peron of it's owner, and not to his manor or lands.

are alo either preentative, collative, or donative. An advowon preentative is where the patron hath a right of preentation to the bihop or ordinary, and moreover to demand of him to intitute his clerk, if he find him canonically qualified: and this is the mot uual advowon. An advowon collative is where the bihop and patron are one and the ame peron: in which cae the bihop cannot preent to himelf; but Rh