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Incumbent

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incumber

incumber var of encumber

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Incumber

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Incumbently

In an incumbent manner so as to be incumbent

Resignation

or relin-quishing an office, right, or claim, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1311. Ecclesiastical Resignations.--By the (English) Incumbents Resignation Act, 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 44), as amended by 50 & 51 Vict. c. 23,

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

Residence

on his benefice. It is upon the supposition of residence that the law styles every parochial minister an incumbent. By the (English) Pluralities Act, 1838 (1 & 2 Vict. c. 106), repealing former Acts, every spiritual person

Public Worship Regulation Act, 1874

authority, or that any decoration forbidden by law has been introduced into such church; or (2) that the incumbent has within the preceding twelve months used or permitted to be used in such church or burial ground

Induction

inductio, Lat., a leading into], the giving a parson possession of his church. A clerk is not complete incumbent until induction, which is performed by a mandate from the bishop to the archdeacon, or if the church

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