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Impropriation

Impropriation, the act of employing the revenues of a church living to a layman's use. See APPROPRIA-TION and LAY

Impropriator

One who impropriates specifically a layman in possession of church property

Impropriation

The act of impropriating as the impropriation of property or tithes also that which is impropriated

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Lay impropriators

Lay impropriators, lay persons to whose use ecclesiastical benefices have been annexed. At the dissolution of the monasteries by stat.

Impropriatrix

A female impropriator

Lay Rector

Lay Rector. A person holding by title under lay impropriation (see that title). As to the lay rector's liability to repair, see Morley v. Leacroft, 1896, P. 92,

Rector

a monastery, the incumbent generally being a 'vicar'; or, in cases where the living had not been so impropriated and a spiritual person, the 'parson,' who has the whole revenues together with the cure of souls. See

Vicar

Vicar, one who performs the functions of another; a substitute. Also, the incumbent of an appropriated or impropriated benefice, as distinguished from the incumbent of a non-impropriated benefice, who is called a rector. See RECTOR, and

Poor laws

raised by' taxation of every inhabitant, parson, vicar, and other, and of every occupier of lands, houses, tithes impropriate, propriations of tithes, coal mines, or saleable underwoods in the parish.' By the (English) Rating Act, 1874, the

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