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Ecclesiastical Corporations. Corporations created for the furtherance of religion, and for the perpetuation of the rights of the church, the members of which are exclusively spiritual persons. They are of two kinds: corporations sole-viz., bishops, certain deans, parsons, and vicars; and corporations aggregate-viz., deans and chapters, and formerly prior and convent, abbot and monks, and the like. For a statutory definition see (English) 14 & 15 Vict. c. 104, s. 11....
Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England
Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, a body corporate established by the (English) Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act, 1836 (6 & 7 Wm. 4, c. 77), the long preamble of which sets out the recommenda-tions as to the more equal distribution of episcopal duties and revenues of two previous Royal Commissions, empowered to suggest measures conductive to the efficiency of the Established Church to be ratified by Orders in Council. Church Estate Commissioners are appointed ex officio members of this corporation. See (English) amending Acts of 1840, 1841, 1850, 1860, and 1873 (3 & 4 Vict. c. 113; 4 & 5 Vict. c. 39; 13 & 14 Vict. c. 94; 23 & 24 Vict. c. 124; 36 & 37 Vict. c. 64); and subsequent Acts; and CHURCH BUILDING ACTS; also (English) Welsh Church Act, 1914 (4 & 5Geo. 5, c. 91).A group of people empowered to suggest measures to improve the established Church's efficiency, to be rectified by order's in council, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 530....
Leases, Ecclesiastical
Leases, Ecclesiastical. Leases by ecclesiastical corporations are made under certain restrictions imposed by statutes of which the principal one is the (English) Ecclesiastical Leasing Act,1842, and see (English) Agric. Holdings Act, 1923, ss. 20 and 26. See Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Lease (Ecclesiastical)'; Woodfall, 'Landlord and Tenant.'...
Welsh Church
Welsh Church. The Welsh Church Act, 1914, provided of the disestablishment of the Church of England in Wales and Monmouthshire. Its operation was suspended by the Suspensory Act, 1914, but it came into effect under, and was amended by, the Welsh Church (Temporalities) Act, 1919, as from 31st March, 1920. All ecclesiastical corporations are dissolved and disendowed, but churches, ecclesiastical residences and certain endowments, as well as a million pounds under a scheme of commutation of existing interests, are transferred to a 'representative body' which has been incorporated by Royal Charter. See the above-mentioned Acts and the Welsh Church Rules....
Disabling Statutes
Disabling Statutes, Acts of Parliament restraining and regulating the exercise of a right or the power of alienation; the term is especially applied to 1 Eliz. c. 19, and similar Acts, restraining the power of ecclesiastical corporations to make leases....
Fore-hand rent
Fore-hand rent, rent payable in advance.A premium paid by tenant on making of lease; esp. on renewal of lease by an ecclesiastical corporation Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 658....
Eleemosynary corporations
Eleemosynary corporations, corporate bodies con-stituted for the perpetual distribution of the free alms or bounty of the founder of them. Of this kind are all hospitals for the maintenance of the poor, sick, and impotent, and all colleges, both in our universities and out of them, which are founded for the promotion of piety and learning by proper regulations and ordinances, and for imparting assistance to the members of those bodies, in order to enable them to prosecute their devotions and studies with greater care and assiduity. These eleemosynary corporations, though in some things partaking of the nature of ecclesiastical bodies, are, strictly speaking, lay, and not ecclesiastical, even though composed of ecclesiastical persons; and, accordingly, they are not subject to the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts, or to the visitations of the ordinary or diocesan in their spiritual charac-ters, 3 Steph. Com....
Trust corporation
Trust corporation, is defined by the (English) Settled Land Act, 1925, s. 117 (1) (xxx.), to mean the Public Trustee or a corporation appointed by the Court or entitled under (English) Public Trustee Act Rules [see the Public Trustee [(English) Custodian Trustee] Rules, 1926, S. R. & O., 1926, No. 1423/L. 37]. Trust corporations may exercise solely or jointly all the powers for the exercise of which the Land Legislation Acts of 1925 require two trustees at least (see TRUST; TRUST FOR SALE; SETTLED LAND; ADMINISTRATOR). These corporations include any company incorporated by Special Act or Royal Charter or Companies under the Companies Act, 1929, with an issued capital of not less than 2,50,000l., of which at least 1,00,000l. has been paid up in cash, or any company undertaking trust business for his Majesty's Navy, Army, Air Force or Civil Service having as director or member any person nominated by one of the Government Departments referred to in the Rules or any company authorized by ...
Mortmain
Mortmain [fr. mort, Fr., dead, and main hand], such a state of possession of land as makes it inalienable; whence it is said to be in dead hand--in a hand that cannot shift away the property. It takes place upon alienation to any corporation, sole or aggregate, ecclesiastical or temporal, 2 Bl. Com. 268.By several old statutes, alienation of lands and tenements in mortmain, i.e., to religious and other corporations, which were supposed to hold them in a dead or unserviceable hand, were prohibited under pain of forfeiture to the lord, the fruits of whose feudal seigniory (the great hinge of government in those days) were thus impaired. But either with or without the consent of the immediate lords (for this is doubtful), this forfeiture might be dispensed with by a licence in mortmain from the Crown, which licence was made sufficient without any such consent by 7 & 8 Wm. 3, c. 37, repealed and reenacted by the consolidating mortmain and (English) Charitable Uses Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. ...
Corporation or body politic
Corporation or body politic, an artificial person es-tablished for preserving in perpetual succession certain rights, which being conferred on natural persons only would fail in process of time. It is either aggegate, consisting of many members, or sole, consisting of one person only, as a parson. It is also either spiritual, created to perpetuate the rights of the Church, or lay'sub-divided into civil, created for many temporal purposes, and eleemosynary, to perpetuate founders' charities. It is by virtue of the sovereign's prerogative exercised by a charter, or of an Act of Parliament, or of prescription, that the artificial personage called a corporation, whether sole or aggregate, civil or ecclesiastical, is created. The royal charter gives it a legal immortality, and a name by which it acts and becomes known. It has power to make bye-laws for its own government, and transacts its business under the authority of a common seal-its hand and mouthpiece; it has neither soul nor tangibl...
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