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APPROPRIATION (from See also:Lat. appropriare, to set aside) , the See also:act of setting apart and applying to a particular use to the exclusion of all other. In ecclesiastical See also:law, appropriation is the perpetual See also:annexation of an ecclesiastical See also:benefice to the use of some spiritual See also:corporation, either aggregate or See also:sole. In the See also:middle ages in See also:England the See also:custom See also:grew up of the monasteries reserving to their own use the greater See also:part of the See also:tithes of their appropriated benefices, leaving only a small portion to their vicars in the parishes. On the See also:dissolution of the monasteries these " See also:great tithes " were often granted, with the monastic lands, to laymen; whose successors, known as " See also:lay impropriators " or " lay rectors," still hold them, the See also:system being known as impropriation. Appropriation may be severed and the See also:church become disappropriate, by the presentation of a clerk, properly instituted and inducted, or by the dissolution of the corporation possessing the benefice. In the law of debtor and creditor, appropriation of payments is the application of a particular See also:payment for the purpose of paying a particular See also:debt. When a creditor has two debts due to him from the same debtor on distinct accounts, the See also:general law as to the appropriation of payments made by the debtor is that the debtor is entitled to apply the payments to such See also:account as he thinks See also:fit; solvitur in modum solventis. In See also:default of appropriation by the debtor the creditor is entitled to determine the application of the sums paid, and may appropriate them even to the See also:discharge of debts barred by the See also:Statute of Limitations. In default of appropriation by either debtor or creditor, the law implies an appropriation of the earlier payments to the earlier debts. In constitutional law, appropriation is the See also:assignment of See also:money for a See also:special purpose. In the See also:United See also:Kingdom an Appropriation See also:Bill is a bill passed at the end of each session of See also:parliament, enumerating the money grants made during the session, and appropriating the various sums, as voted by See also:committee of See also:supply, to the various purposes for which it is to be applied. The United States constitution (See also:art.

I. § 9) says: " No money shall be See also:

drawn from the See also:treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law." Bills for appropriating money originate in the See also:House of Representatives, but may be amended in the See also:Senate.

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