precaria

The institution known as precaria ecclesiastica was quite favourable to the growth of donations.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

A precaria is a contract granting to a petitioner the use and usufruct of a revenue-bearing ecclesiastical property for a specified time, or during the life of the grantee, and principally for services rendered the Church.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

The latter form of grant, in connexion with lands or permanent endowments, was known as precaria, a name which indicates its unstable tenure; on the death of the possessor the source of his revenue reverted to the common fund of church property, and could not serve for the support of a cleric unless devoted anew to this purpose by a formal act of ecclesiastical authority.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

The institution of the precaria, by which princes bestowed on their lay servants, especially their fellow-warriors, the revenues of churches and monasteries, was really a secularization of the goods of the Church.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

Canon ii, owing to the circumstances of the times, does not abolish the precaria, but it reserves to the Church a tax of a silver penny per hearth (casata); on the death of the beneficiary the property returns to the Church, though the prince may bestow it again.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

Church of its revenues, threatened the extinction of her proprietary rights, especially when she was compelled to grant the precaria, at royal request, or rather order (precaria verbo regis).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

The precaria officially left the Church her property, but the dominium utile, or benefit, of it was transferred at the request, or prayer, of the king (preces, hence precaria), which was equivalent to a command, to the layman whom he wished to recompense.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

The latter, though differing juridically from the precaria, had the same effect so far as the property of the Church is concerned: the revenues, diverted from their proper purpose, were received by laymen named by the king.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

There is an instance of a proprietor of land at Mylasa, in Karia, deliberately selling his estates to a sacred community for the benefit of the god, and receiving them again (like the Roman _precaria_) from the trustees on perpetual lease — εἰς πατρικά — as the patrimonial substance of his family, for himself and his issue or whosoever should take inheritance from him.

On The Structure of Greek Tribal Society: An Essay 1906

Estudio hasta quinto grado de primaria, pero no continuó estudiando debido a que no contaba con el apoyo de sus padres, pues su situación económica era muy precaria.

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