Chancel - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Chancel, the part of a church in which the communion table stands; it belongs to the rector or the impropriator, 2 Br. & Had.Com. 420. As to a pew in a chancel, see Parker v. leach, (1866) LR 1 PC 312; and as to propertyin a chancel generally, see Champman v. Jones, (1869) LR 4 Ex 273; Duke of Norfolk v. Arbuthnot, (1880) 5 CPD 390. For the liability to repair a chacel, see the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measure, 1923 (14 & 15 Geo. 5, No. 3), s. 52, and the Chancel Repairs Act, 1932 (22 Geo. 5, c. 20)....
Cancelli
An interwoven or latticed wall or inclosure latticework rails or crossbars as around the bar of a court of justice between the chancel and the nave of a church or in a window...
Chancel
That part of a church reserved for the use of the clergy where the altar or communion table is placed...
Chevet
The extreme end of the chancel or choir properly the round or polygonal part...
Faldistory
The throne or seat of a bishop within the chancel...
VerbarJubeacute
A chancel screen or rood screen...
VerbarSedilia
Seats in the chancel of a church near the altar for the officiating clergy during intervals of service...
Churchwardens
Churchwardens, anciently styled Church Reeves or Ecclesi' Guardiani, the guardians or keepers of the church, and representatives of the body of the parish; but though in some sort ecclesiastical officers, they are always lay persons. They are a quasi corporation for certain purpose, Withnell v. Gartham, (1795) 6 TR 388 (396), and in the City of London they are a corporation for the purpose of holding lands; but beyond that they are only annual officers, Fell v. Official Trustee of Charity Lands, 1898 (2) Ch 59. They are sometimes appointed by the minister, sometimes by the Vestry and Parochial Church Meeting sitting together (see 11 & 12 Geo. 5 No. 1, s. 13), sometimes by the minister and the meeting together, sometimes one by the minister and another by the meeting, as custom directs. Where there is no custom the election must be according to Canon 89 and s. 13 above, under which they must be chosen by the joint consent of the minister and the meeting, and if they cannot agree, then t...
Dilapidation
Dilapidation, decay; a kind of ecclesiastical waste, either voluntary, by pulling down, or permissive, by suffering the chancel, parsonage house, and other buildings thereunto belonging to decay. See the (English) Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Act, 1871 and 1872 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 43, and 35 & 36 Vict. c. 96), Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Church and Clergy.'The term is also used to signify that disrepair for which a tenant is usually liable to a landlord during and at the end of a tenancy under an express agreement to keep and yield up the demised premises in good repair; see Lister v. Lane, (1893) 2 QB 212; Torrents v. Walker, (1906) 2 Ch 166; Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe v. McOscar, (1924) 1 KB 716 (CA), also FORFEITURE, and Landlord and Tenant Housing Act....
Faldisdory
Faldisdory [fr. falde, Sax., a hedge, and stop, a place], the bishop's seat or throne within the chancel....
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