plenarty

English

Noun

plenarty (usually uncountable, plural plenarties)

1. (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.

Anagrams

• parently, pyrantel