Definition for COL-LA'TIVE

COL-LA'TIVE, a.

Advowsons are presentative, collative, or donative. An advowson collative is where the bishop and patron are one and the same person; in which case the bishop can not present to himself, but he does, by one act of collation or conferring the benefice, the whole that is done, in common cases, by both presentation and institution. – Blackstone.

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