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Lay Rector
Lay Rector. A person holding by title under lay impropriation (see that … title under lay impropriation (see that title). As to the lay rector's liability to repair, see Morley v. Leacroft, 1896, P. 92,
Rector
governor; in ecclesiastical law, either a layman, sometimes called a 'lay rector' or 'lay impropriator,' who has that part of the revenues
Lay impropriators
to time by the Crown to laymen. See APPROPRIATION AND LAY RECTOR.
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384. Many appropriations, however, are now in the hands of lay persons, who are usually styled, by way of distinction, lay … sustinet; or from parochianus, the parish-priest.--Johnson; anciently written persone.--Todd], 'the rector of a church parochiall' (Co. Litt. 300 a); one that
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