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Parish Council. Established by the Local Govern-ment Act, 1894, s. 1 (see now Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), ss. 43-55), for every rural parish i.e., (every parish in a rural sanitary district) having a population of 300 or upwards, the county council having also power to group parishes under a common parish council, and being bound to establish a parish council if the parish meeting of a parish having a population of 100 or upwards so resolve, and having power to establish one with the consent of the parish meeting if the population be less than 100.The parish council is elected from among the parochial electors, or persons who have resided for twelve months in the parish or within three miles of it. The number of councillors is fixed by each county council within the limits of five and fifteen members. The term of office, which was by the Act of 1894 one year, was altered to three years by the Parish Councillors (Tenure of Office) Act, 1899, by which the councill...
Parish meeting
Parish meeting. Established for every rural parish by the Local Government Act, 1894 (see now Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), ss. 43-55, 77, and Sch. III., Part VI.), and consisting of the registered parliamentary electors and county council electors of the parish, each having one vote and no more on any question, or in the case of an election for each of any number of persons not exceeding the number to be elected; bound to assemble annually, or if thee be no parish council, at least twice a year. The proceedings must not begin earlier than 6 p.m. Every question is decided by a majority of those present at a meeting, and voting, the decision of the chairman being final unless a poll, which is taken by ballot, be demanded. On the question of the appointment of chairman for a year, or of the adoption of any 'adoptive Act' (see below) and other questions, any one elector may demand a poll. The chairman of the parish council, or any two parish councillors, or any six r...
Parish
Of or pertaining to a parish parochial as a parish church parish records a parish priest maintained by the parish as parish poor...
Parish Boundaries
Parish Boundaries, see 1 Vict. c. 69, s. 2; 2 & 3Vict. c. 62, ss. 34-6; 3 & 4 Vict. c. 15, s. 28; 8 & 9 Vict. c. 118, ss. 39-45; and 12 & 13 Vict. c. 83, ss. 1, 9. See also 38 & 39 Vict. c. 55, s. 278; and as to the better arrangement of divided parishes, see 39 & 40 Vict. c. 61. In order to perpetuate the memory of parish boundaries it was anciently the custom for the parishioners to walk round or perambulate the parish generally during Rogation Week. This was called 'beating the bounds.' Although the fixing of parish boundaries by Act of Parliament and the more general use of maps has done away with this necessity, perambulations still take place in many parishes. As to alteration of parish boundaries, see (English) Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), s. 141....
Parish
Parish [fr. parochia, Low Lat.; paroisse Fr., fr. porik'a Gk., habitation], the particular charge of a secular priest. Parochia est locus quo degit populus aliujus ecclesi'. 5 Co.--(A parish is a place in which the people of a particular church reside.) It is that circuit of ground which is committed to the care of one parson or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein, 1 Bl. Com. 111. An extended definition of 'parish' for ecclesiastical purposes is given in para. 1 of the Schedule to the Representation of the Laity Measure, 1929 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, No. 2). As to the origin of parishes, see ibid.; 2 Hallam's Mid. Ages, c. vii, pt. 1, p. 144.The Rating and Valuation Act, 1925 (15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 90), s. 68 (4), defines a parish 'a place for which immediately before the 1st April, 1927, a separate poor rate was or could be made, or a separate overseer was or could be appointed....
Parish Clerk
Parish Clerk. This office is of extreme antiquity--next indignity to the clergy, says Leland; but it is a temporal office, Lawrence v. Edwards, (1891) 2 Ch 72. He is now appointed by the incumbent and the parochial church council jointly. The remuneration and terms depended on the custom of the particular parish and on the agreement made with him--58 Geo. 3, c. 45; 59 Geo. 3, c. 134; 19 & 20 Vict. c. 104; 11 & 12 Geo. 5, No. 1. See note Key and Elph. Prec., 12th Edn., vol. i, p. 118. The Company of Parish Clerks is the most ancient in the City of London; yet they stand at the bottom of the list, and have neither livery nor the privilege of making their members free of the City. See 2 Steph. Com., 7th Edn. 700.For the appointment of the clerk of the parish council under the Local Government Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5. C. 51), see s. 114, ibid....
parish court
parish court : a court established for each Louisiana parish and having limited jurisdiction over civil and less serious criminal matters ...
Parish Church
Parish Church, a Parish Church, is an ecclesiastical authority operating in a specific area. But they are of a religious order. Their autonomy, their financial powers, their administrative control have been thus different in different ages depending on the terms of creation of the trust, the purpose and objective of its establishment, the personality of the person occupying it, financial strength of it etc., Most Rev. P.M.A. Metropalitan v. Moran Mar Marthoma, AIR 1995 SC 2001 (2042): 1995 Supp (4) SCC 286....
Parish Priest
Parish Priest, the parson; a minister who holds a parish as a benefice. If the predial tithes are unappropriated, he is called rector; if appropriated, vicar....
Parish Officers
Parish Officers, churchwardens, formerly overseers, and constables....
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