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LAPSE (Lat. lapses, a slip or departure)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 207 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LAPSE (
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Lat. lapses, a slip or departure)  , in
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law, a
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term used in several senses . (I) In ecclesiastical law, when a
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patron has neglected to
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present to a void
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benefice within six months next after the avoidance, the right of presentation is said to
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lapse . In such
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case the patronage or right of presentation devolves from the neglectful patron to the
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bishop as
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ordinary, to the
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metropolitan as
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superior and to the
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sovereign as patron
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paramount . (2) The failure of a testamentary disposition in favour of any
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person, by
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reason of the decease of its
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object in the testator's lifetime, is termed a lapse . See
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LEGACY, WILL .

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