Congregationalist - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: congregationalistCongregationalist
Congregationalist, a name for the sect formerly called Independents. See DISSENTERS....
Congregationalist
One who belongs to a Congregational church or society one who holds to Congregationalism...
Dissenters
Dissenters, Protestant seceders from the Established Church. They are of many denominations, principally Presbyterians, Independents or Congregationalists, Methodists, and Baptists; but as to Church government the Baptists are Independents.The penal laws, for the enforcement of legal uniformity, have been abrogated. The (English) Toleration Act, 1 W. & M. st. 1, c. 18, extended to Unitarians by 53 Geo. 3, c. 160, first allowed dissenters to assemble for religious worship according to their own forms in places of meeting duly certified; as to such places, see now 18 & 19 Vict. c. 81, and 19 & 20 Vict. c. 119, ss. 17, 27. The (English) Dissenters Chapels Act, 1844 (see that title), provided for meeting-houses; and the (English) Trustees Appointment Act, 1850 (13 & 14 Vict. c. 28), commonly called (English) Peto's Act, amended by the (English) Trustees Appointment Act, 1890 (53 & 54 Vict. c. 19), provides for facilities in regard to the appointment of trustees andthe title to lands purcha...
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