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Webster 1913 Edition
Advocation
1.
The act of advocating or pleading; plea; advocacy.
[Archaic]
The holy Jesus . . . sits in heaven in a perpetual
advocation
for us. Jer. Taylor.
2.
Advowson.
[Obs.]
The donations or
advocations
of church livings. Sanderson.
3.
(Scots Law)
The process of removing a cause from an inferior court to the supreme court.
Bell.
Webster 1828 Edition
Advocation
ADVOCA'TION
,Noun.
A bill of advocation, in Scotland, is a written application to a superior court, to call an action before them from an inferior court. The order of the superior court for this purpose is called a letter of advocation.