DEPRIVATION, in the common law, the act of bereaving, divesting, or taking away a spiritual promotion or dignity: as when a bishop, vicar, prebend, or the like, is deposed or deprived of his preferment, for some matter, or fault, in fact, or in law. See DEPOSITION.
Deprivation is of two kinds; a beneficio, et ab officio.
DEPRIVATION a beneficio is, when for some great crime a minister is wholly and for every deprived of his living or preferment: which differs from suspension, in that the latter is only temporary.