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BENEFICIO PRIMA [ECCLESIAS- TICO HABENDO] Definition & Legal Meaning

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In English law. An ancient writ, which was addressed by the king to the lord chancellor, to bestow the benefice that should first fall in the royal gift, above or under a specified value, upon a person named therein. Reg. Orig. 307.

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