Assertion: vicar's power | /r/CapableOf | nominate the rector
Facets:
value: to a benefice
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: By the Gregorian reforms of the 11th century, almost all these rights were extinguished for lay patrons, who were able to retain the sole residual power to nominate the rector to a benefice, and many lay notables thereupon gave up parish churches into the ownership of religious houses; who were less inhibited by canon law from extracting fees and rents from rectors, and who could moreover petition for exemption from most such laws by papal dispensation.