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See also:APPROPRIATION (from See also:Lat. appropriare, to set aside)
, the See also:act of setting apart and applying to a particular use to the exclusion of all other
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In ecclesiastical See also:law, See also:appropriation is the perpetual See also:annexation of an ecclesiastical See also:benefice to the use of some spiritual See also:corporation, either aggregate or See also:sole
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In the See also:middle ages in See also:England the See also:custom See also:grew up of the monasteries reserving to their own use the greater See also:part of the See also:tithes of their appropriated benefices, leaving only a small portion to their vicars in the parishes
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On the See also:dissolution of the monasteries these " See also:great tithes " were often granted, with the monastic lands, to laymen; whose successors, known as " See also:lay impropriators " or " lay rectors," still hold them, the See also:system being known as impropriation
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Appropriation may be severed and the See also: I . § 9) says: " No money shall be See also:drawn from the See also:treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law." Bills for appropriating money originate in the See also:House of Representatives, but may be amended in the See also:Senate . |
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