Those profits which a bishop receives in hls ecclesiastical character, as the dues arising from hls ordaining and instituting priests, and such like, in contradistinction to those profits which he acquires in his temporal ca-pacity as a baron and lord of parliament, and which are termed hls “temporalities,” consisting of certain lands, revenues, and lay fees, etc. Cowell.
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
