plenarty

plural plenarties

1. historicaluncountableusuallylawThe state of a benefice when occupied.

   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.

   1982, Robert E Rodes, Lay Authority and Reformation in the English Church

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   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.

   1811, Giles Jacob, Thomas Edlyne Tomlins, The Law Dictionary