Persons who in Scotland, after the Reformation, obtained grant» from the crown of the monas-terles and priories then erected into temporal lordshlps. Thus the titles formerly held by the religious houses, as well as the property of the lands, were conferred on these gran-tees, who were also called ‘lords of erection” and “titulars of the teinds.” Bell
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
