In ecclesiastical law . A burial-place. A kind of ecclesiastical heriot, being a customary gift of the second best living animal belonging to the deceased, claimed by aud due to the minister in many parishes, ou the death of his parishioners , whether buried in the church-yard or not. 2 Bl. Comm. 425. Ayrton v. Abbott, 14 Q. B. 19. It has been sometimes used in a civil as well as in an ecclesiastical sense, and ap- plied to a payment to the lord of the fee. Paroch. Antiq. 470.
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