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The act of impropriating as the impropriation of property or tithes also that which is impropriated...
Impropriation
Impropriation, the act of employing the revenues of a church living to a layman's use. See APPROPRIA-TION and LAY IMPROPRIATOR....
Lay impropriators
Lay impropriators, lay persons to whose use ecclesiastical benefices have been annexed. At the dissolution of the monasteries by stat. 27 Hen. 8, c. 28, and 31 Hen. 8, c. 13, the appropriations of the several parsonages which belonged to them were given to the king. The same had been done in former reigns when the alien priories were dissolved and given to the Crown. From these two roots have sprung all the lay impropriations or secular parsonages, they having been afterwards granted out from time to time by the Crown to laymen. See APPROPRIATION AND LAY RECTOR....
Impropriator
One who impropriates specifically a layman in possession of church property...
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, and Stuart v. Haughley Parish Church Council, 104 LJ Ch 314, with the rights to contribution from other lay impropriators. As to any right to occupy a seat in the chancel of a church, see Stileman-Gibbard v. Wilkinson, (1897) 1 QB 749....
Rector
Rector, a governor; in ecclesiastical law, either a layman, sometimes called a 'lay rector' or 'lay impropriator,' who has that part of the revenues of a church which before the dissolution of the monasteries by King Henry VIII. was appropriated to 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 1 Bl. Com. 384.The spiritual head and presiding officer of a church, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1281....
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 31 & 32 Vict. c. 117, s. 2....
Impropriate
To appropriate to ones self to assume...
Impropriatrix
A female impropriator...
Appropriation
Appropriation, the annexing of some ecclesiastical benefice to the proper and perpetual use of some religious house, etc., just as impropriation is the annexing a benefice to the use of a lay person or corporation. Appropriation may be severed and the church become disappropriate, if a patron or appropriator present a clerk who is properly instituted and inducted, for he would then become complete parson; also, if a corporation possessing the benefice is dissolved, the parsonage becomes disappropriate at Common Law, Phill. Eccl. Law....
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