In ecclesiastical law. In-duction is the ceremony by which an incum-bent who has been instituted to a benefice is vested with full possession of all the profits belonging to the church, so tiiat he becomes seised of the temporalities of the church, and is theu complete incumbent. It is performed by virtue of a mandate of in* duction directed by the bishop to the archdeacon, who either perforins it in person, or directs his precept to one or more other clergymen to do it Phillim. Ecc. Law, 477
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
