Abbey
What does Abbey mean in American Law?
The definition of Abbey in the law of the United States, as defined by the lexicographer Arthur Leff in his legal dictionary is:
The buildings and other lands (sometimes called abbey lands) of a Roman Catholic monastic order of monks or nuns, for the most part referring to the property of those orders organized under the Benedictine rule. The leader is called an abbot if the inhabitants are monks, an abbess if nuns. “Abbacy” may refer to the abbey, or to the abbot’s rights, powers, and jurisdictions, i.e., “abbacy” sometimes bears roughly the same relation to “abbot” as “bishopric” bears to “bishop.” Until the expropriation of church lands by Henry VIII in the early sixteenth century, a significant fraction of English land was concentrated in abbeys.
Meaning of Abbey
In this law dictionary, the legal term abbey is a kind of the Ecclesiastical law class.
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