See also:

• PLURALITY (0. Fr. pluralitd, Late Lat. pluralitas, plural number)

PLURALITY (0. Fr. pluralitd, See also:

• LATE

Late See also:

• LAT

Lat. pluralitas, plural number)  , in a See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general sense, a word denoting more than one; applied particularly to the holding of two or more offices by the same See also:

• PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person (called then a pluralist) . In ecclesiastical See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law, See also:

• PLURALITY (0. Fr. pluralitd, Late Lat. pluralitas, plural number)

plurality or the holding of more than one See also:

• BENEFICE (Lat. beneficium, benefit)

benefice or preferment was always discountenanced, and is now prohibited in See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England by the Pluralities See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

Act 1838, as amended by the Pluralities Act 185o and the Pluralities Acts See also:

• AMENDMENT (through the O. Fr. amender, to correct, from Lat. mendum, a fault)

Amendment Act 1885 . By the latter act a See also:

• PROVISION (Lat. provisio)

provision was made that two benefices might be held together, by See also:

• DISPENSATION

dispensation of the See also:

• ARCHBISHOP (Lat. archiepiscopus, from Gr. apxceatorcoros)

archbishop on the recommendation of the See also:

• BISHOP (A.S. bisceop, from Lat. episcopus, Gr. irio-Korros, " overlooker " or " overseer ")
• BISHOP, ISABELLA (1832-1904)
• BISHOP, SIR HENRY ROWLEY (1786-1855)

bishop, if the churches be within four See also:

• MILES, NELSON APPLETON (1839— )

miles of each other, and if the See also:

• ANNUAL

annual value of one does not exceed £200 (see BENEFICE) . It was formerly a practice to evade enactments against plurality by means of commendams, i.e. by committing or commending a benefice to a holder of other benefices until an See also:

• INCUMBENT (from Lat. incumbere, to lean, lie upon)

incumbent should be provided for it . Cornmendams were abolished by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act 1836 (6 & 7 Will . IV. c . 77, § 18) . See also See also:

• COLT, SAMUEL (1814-1862)

Colt v . Bishop of See also:

• COVENTRY, SIR JOHN (d. 1682)
• COVENTRY, SIR WILLIAM (c. 1628-1686)
• COVENTRY, THOMAS COVENTRY, 1ST BARON (2578–1640)

Coventry, 1613, Hob . 140 seq., where much learning on the subject will be found . In elections, particularly where there are three or more candidates, and no one See also:

• CANDIDATE

candidate receives an See also:

• ABSOLUTE (Lat. absolvere, to loose, set free)

absolute See also:

• MAJORITY (Fr. majorite; Med. Lat. majoritas; Lat. major, greater)

majority of votes, the excess of votes polled by the first candidate over the second is often termed plurality, especially in the See also:

• UNITED

United States .