obvention
(əbˈvɛnʃən)
[a. F. obvention (13th c. in Godef.), or ad. L. obventiōn-em revenue, n. of action f. obvenīre: see above.]
That which comes to one incidentally; in Eccl. Law, an incoming fee or revenue, esp. one of an occasional or incidental character.
| 1459 Rolls of Parlt. V. 365/2 All..Portions, Pensions, Dymes, Oblations, Obventions, and other Emolumentes and Profites. 1495 Act 11 Hen. VII, c. 44 §6 Tythes oblacions obvencions advousons. 1635 E. Pagitt Christianogr. iii. (1636) 44 You shall finde these Oblations and Obventions to be of great value. 1655 Fuller Ch. Hist. v. iii. §50 Here we speak not of the accidentals, as Legacies..and other Casualties, and Obventions. 1794 W. Tindal Hist. Evesham 97 To the priorship belong all Obventions or fees under common seal. 1859 R. F. Burton Centr. Afr. in Jrnl. Geog. Soc. XXIX. 344 These men..receive as obventions and spiritual fees sheep and goats, cattle and provisions. |