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Building

Company, (1893) 49 LT 554; Greswolde Williams v. Newcastle-upon-Tyne Corpn., (1927) 92 JP 13; London Transport Executive v. Congregational Union of England and Wales (Inc), (1978) 37 P&CR 135. Building includes any structure or erection and any

Canon law

Canon law. When Christian communities formed themselves into congregations ('kklhoiai), certain resolutions were agreed upon for their government; these were termed rules kavoves, forma, disciplina); and the

Chapter

Chapter [fr. Apitulum, Lat.], a congregation of ecclesiastical persons in a cathedral church, consisting of canons or prebendaries whereof the dean is the head,

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Episcopal and congregationalism

Episcopal and congregationalism, the basic or essential characteristic of 'congregationalism' and 'episcopal' is that in the former the authority vests in

Disorderly houses

Disorderly houses. Houses where persons congreg-ate to the probable disturbance of the peace or other commission of crime. See (English) Disorderly Houses Act, 1751

Dissenters Chapels Act

v. Wilson, (1842) 9 Cl&F 355, in which it was held by the House of Lords that Unitarian congregations, inspite of long and undisturbed possession, were not entitled to retain chapels and meeting-houses originally founded under Trinitarian

VerbarSamaj

A society or congregation a church or religious body

Market and fair

Market and fair, Market may strictly be defined as 'the meaning or congregating together of people for the purchase and sale of provisions or livestock, publicly exposed, at a fixed time

Molliter manus imposuit

may lay hands upon another to turn him out of church (for instance), and prevent his disturbing the congregation; and if sued for this and the like battery, he may set forth the whole case and state

Peto's Act

without any further conveyance; amended by the Trustees Appointment Act, 1890, by its extension to societies of associated congregations, such as those of the Wesleyan Methodists, to which body the Act of 1850 had been held in

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