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The paper discusses a range of disputable issues concerning the terminology of the Cyrillic acts from the Queen Bona Sforza’s Metrica which is the basis of the archives at the chancery of Polish Queen and Lithuanian Grand Duchess Bona Sforza. These acts are related to the social institute of clerical investiture. The purpose of this article is to elaborate a definition of the notion “stavlenniy list” using the key classificatory category of source studies - “kind of historical sources”. The author considers the history of the use of such terms as “priviley”, “list”, and “gramota” in historiography and sources of Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The Russian diplomatics term “stavlennaya gramota”is deemed the most appropriate for designating the Lithuanian Metrica’s acts approving the rights to hierarchy. In the diplomatics of the Lithuanian state there should be distinguished 1) bishop’s stavlenniy lists issued by the church authorities in accordance with the canon law and 2) secular stavlenniy lists which obtained a wide circulation owning to the application of the right of church patronage. A secular stavlenniy list is a document by which the representatives of secular authority conferred the right of one-man management upon any churchman with respect to a certain church, monastery or bishop’s throne and also transferred him the rights to real estate. In Queen Bona’s Metrica this sort of acts of a contractual and legislative nature is represented by four subsorts of lists: 1) for the office of priest; 2) for the office of hegumen; 3) for the office of bishop; and 4) confirmatory.