in logic and rhetoric, a consequence drawn from several propositions or principles first laid down. See Logic; and Oratory, p. 32.

in law, is putting a clerk or clergyman in possession of a benefice or living to which he is collated or presented. See the article Parson.—Induction is performed by a mandate from the bishop to the arch-deacon, who usually issues out a precept to other clergymen to perform it for him. It is done by giving the clerk corporal possession of the church, as by holding the ring of the door, tolling a bell, or the like; and is a form required by law, with intent to give all the parishioners due notice and sufficient certainty of their new minister, to whom their tythes are to be paid. This therefore is the investiture of the temporal part of the benefice, as institution is of the spiritual. And when a clerk is thus presented, instituted, and inducted into a rectory, he is then, and not before, in full and complete possession; and is called in law persona imperfonata, or parson imparsance.