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of 1179 required that the local bishop appoint to church vacancies that had lasted longer than three months, thus injecting a new urgency into disputes over the right of presentation. By having a jury decide who had last presented to the church in question (in peacetime), and giving them (or their
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and presentation to churches, let it be treated and concluded in the court of the king". While a controversial element in his (generally controversial) demarcation of church and state, in practice advowsons remained lay property in England; and some time after the 1166
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would provide for easier access in section 18, which stated that "Inquests of ... darrein presentment shall not be held elsewhere than in the county in which they arise, and ... four times a year".
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Legal complications arising from changes in church tenure during the last holder's lifetime meant that darrein presentment would eventually be supplemented by the action
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heirs) the current right of presentation, the new writ offered a swift and popular solution to a much litigated area.
300: 317: 50:("last presentation") was an action brought to determine who was the last patron to appoint to a vacant church 343: 122: 38:. The assize of darrein presentment was one of the three "petty assizes" introduced by Henry II after 1166. 185: 63: 127: 333: 348: 83: 27: 8: 76: 67: 23: 268: 18: 313: 296: 112:
Like the other two petty assizes, darrein presentment was finally abolished in 1833.
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laid down the principle that "If a dispute shall arise ... concerning
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The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I
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Pollock, Sir Frederick and Frederic William Maitland.
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Henry II of England
Henry the Young King
Matthew Paris
English law
benefice
Constitutions of Clarendon
Henry II of England
advowson
Assize of Clarendon
Third Lateran Council
Magna Carta
quare impedit
Assize of mort d'ancestor
Assize of novel disseisin
Assize of Utrum
Mortmain
Investiture controversy#Origins
Chisholm, Hugh
"Assize" 
Encyclopædia Britannica
ISBN
0-19-822410-9
The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I
ISBN
1886363226
Categories
1179 in England
1179
12th century in law

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