plenarty
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]plenarty (usually uncountable, plural plenarties)
- (law, historical) The state of a benefice when occupied.
- 1982, Robert E Rodes, Lay Authority and Reformation in the English Church:
- 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.
- 1811, Giles Jacob, Thomas Edlyne Tomlins, The Law Dictionary:
- 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.