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Ecclesiastical dilapidations

Ecclesiastical dilapidations. The liability of an incumbent to make good dilapidations in the parsonage house is governed by the (English) Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measures, 1923 to 1929 (14 & 15 Geo. 5, No. 3, and 19 & 20 Geo. 5, No. 3), which have replaced the former (English) Acts (34 & 35 Vict. c. 43 and 35 & 36 Vict. c. 96). The 54th section of the (English) Act of 1871 directs incum-bents to insure....


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....


Parsonage

Parsonage. 1. The benefice of a parish. 2. The parson's house. As to borrowing money for building, rebuilding, or repairing a parsonage, see 'Gilbert Act' (16 Geo. 3, c. 53), the Clergy Residences Repair Act, 1776, the Parsonages Act, 1865, and the Parsonages Measure, 1930; and as to dilapidations, see the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Acts, 1871 and 1872, and the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measures, 1923-1929. Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Church and Clergy.'...


Plenary

Plenary, full, complete; an ordinary proceeding through all its gradations and formal steps, opposed to summary.Plenary causes in the Ecclesiastical Courts re reduced to the following:(1) Suits for ecclesiastical dilapidations.(2) Suits relating to seats or sitting-places in churches.(3) Suits for tithes....


Chancel

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)....


Gilbert Acts (English)

Gilbert Acts (English) , the Clergy Residences Repair Act, 1776 (17 Geo. 3, c. 53), introduced into Parliament by Mr. Davies Gilbert, providing for the building and repairing of parsonages, with the amending Acts 21 Geo. 3, c. 66, 7 Geo. 4, c. 66, 1 & 2 Vict. c. 23, and 28 & 29 Vict. c. 69, described as the Gilbert Acts in the marginal note of s. 64 of the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Act, 1871. Mr. Gilbert also introduced 22 Geo. 3, c. 83, first establishing unions of parishes with guardians of the poor, superseded by the Poor Law Amendment Act, 1834, and repealed by the Statute Law Revision Act, 1871....


Dilapidation

The act of dilapidating or the state of being dilapidated reduced to decay partially ruined or squandered...


Dilapidator

One who causes dilapidation...


Ecclesiastical Law

Ecclesiastical Law, the law administered in the ecclesiastical courts; it is derived from the Civil and Canon Law. Consult Phillimore's Ecclesiastical Law; Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Church and Clergy.'The body of law derived largely from Cannon and Civil Law and administered by ecclesiastical courts, 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.'...


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