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Impropriation

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

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Impropriate

To appropriate to ones self to assume

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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

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,

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

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

Impropriation

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

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

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