avowry

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The act of avowing and justifying in one's own right the distraining of goods.

   “Every avowant, and other person, that makes avowry or conusance, or justifies as baily, in replevin or second deliverance, for rent, custom or service, if the plaintiff be barred, shall recover damages and costs.”

2. isim A form of medieval patronage in which colonial tenants, often from criminal backgrounds, were guaranteed protection by an English lord in exchange for the payment of a tax.

   “It would not be accurate to assume that the whole of the income from the avowries represented sums of 4d., though that seems to have been the standard annual payment, for there were, we know, other fees and income arising from avowry.”

3. isim Advowson, the right to appoint to a benefice or office.

   “[…] there is a reference to the Charter, and an enactment again, that as to those ecclesiastical dignities, which were of the avowry of the Crown, that the elections should be free, saving the rights of the Crown as the patron and founder of those benefices.”

4. isim Avowal (open affirmation or admission).

   “In the avowry of my Assumption, I will proue three things.”

5. isim A protector, especially a patron saint.

   “All the said table, Crucifixe, Mary and John, and other Ymages of our advouries and xii Apostellis, to be of tymbre, covered and wrought with plate of fyne golde.”