DE RECTO DE ADVOCATIONE

de recto de advocatione (dee rek-toh dee ad-v[schwa]-kay-shee-oh-nee), n. [Law Latin “of the right of advowson”] Hist. A writ restoring a person’s right to present a clerk to a benefice when that right had been interfered with. • It was abolished by St. 3 & 4 Will. 4, ch. 27.