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First published 1960 (SND Vol. V). Includes material from the 1976 supplement.
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Quotation dates: 1719, 1840, 1903-1948
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JUS DEVOLUTUM, n. Sc. Church Law: the right of presenting a minister to a congregation, which falls to the Presbytery if the charge has remained vacant for six months (Sc. 1946 A. D. Gibb Legal Terms 47). [′dʒus dɛvɔl′jutəm]Sc. 1719 Acts Gen. Assem. Overtures 1:
Before they proceed to plant upon the Jus devolutum, they shall make Intimation from the Pulpit of that Parish, that the Right is devolved upon the Presbytery.Sc. 1840 D. Sage Mem. Domest. (1889) 8:
The Earl of Cromartie . . . neglected the issuing of the presentation within the prescribed term. The presbytery, availing themselves of the jus devolutum, presented Mr Roderick Mackenzie.Sc. 1903 J. M. Duncan Parochial Eccles. Law 86:
The Civil Courts have jurisdiction to determine whether the right of election is still with the Congregation, or has passed through lapse of time under the jus devolutum to the Presbytery.Sc. 1948 J. T. Cox Practice Ch. Scot. 230:
No provision is made for the exercise of the Jus Devolutum in a case where the failure by the congregation is to exercise a restricted right of election.
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