plenarty

English

Noun

plenarty (usually uncountable, plural plenarties)

  1. (law, historical) The state of a benefice when occupied.
    • 1982: Lay Authority and Reformation in the English Church, Robert E Rodes,
      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: The Law Dictionary, Giles Jacob, Thomas Edlyne Tomlins,
      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.

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