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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
Of or pertaining to a parish parochial as a parish church parish records a parish priest maintained by the parish as parish poor...
Parson
Parson [fr. persona, Lat., because the parson omnium personam in ecclesi' sustinet; or from parochianus, the parish-priest.--Johnson; anciently written persone.--Todd], 'the rector of a church parochiall' (Co. Litt. 300 a); one that has a parochial charge or cure of souls. 'The most legal, most beneficial, and most honourable title that a parish priest can enjoy,' says Sir W. Blackstone.A parson has the freehold for life of the parsonage-house, the glebe, the tithes, and other dues. But these are sometimes appropriated, that is to say, the benefice is perpetually annexed to some spiritual corporation, either sole or aggregate, being the patron of the living; which the law esteems equally capable of providing for the service of the church as any single private clergyman: see 1 Bl. Com. 384. Many appropriations, however, are now in the hands of lay persons, who are usually styled, by way of distinction, lay impropriators. In all appro-priations there is generally a spiritual person attac...
Pentecostals
Offerings formerly made to the parish priest or to the mother church at Pentecost...
Bidding of the Beade
Bidding of the Beade, a charge or warning given by the parish priest to his parishioners at some special time, to come to prayers upon any festival or saint's day, according to the canons of the church; also asking the banns is called bidding, Rubric....
Church-scot
Church-scot, customary obligations paid to the parish priest; from which duties the religious sometimes purchased an exemption for themselves and their tenants....
Procuration
Procuration, an agency, the administration of the business of another; also moneys which parish priests pay yearly to the bishop or archdeacon, ratione visitationis; these are also called proxies, and it is said that there are three sorts--ratione visitationis, consuetudinis, et pactiHardr. 180Bills of Exchange may be drawn, accepted, or endorsed by procuration, i.e., by an agent who has an authority for such a purpose, and 'a signature by procuration operates as notice that the agent has but a limited authority to sign, and the principal is only bound by such signature if the agent in so signing was acting within the actual limits of his authority.'--Bills of Exchange Act, 1882, s. 25. The words 'per pro.' Or 'p.p.' (by procuration) usually follow the signature of an agent, and by s. 26 of the Bills of Exchange Act, a person signing a bill and adding words indicating that he signs in a representative capacity is not personally liable on the bill....
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....
Pentecostals
Pentecostals, pious oblations made at the feast of Pentecost by parishioners to their priests; and sometimes by inferior churches or parishes to the principal mother churches. They are also called Whitsun-farthings....
Marriage
Marriage. Marriage as understood in Christendom is the voluntary union for life of one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others, Hyde v. Hyde, 1866 LR 1 P&D 130. Where a marriage in a foreign country complies with these requirements it is immaterial that under the local law dissolution can be obtained by mutual consent or at the will of either party with merely formal conditions of official registration, and it constitutes a valid marriage according to English law, Nachimson v. Nachimson, 1930, P. 217. Previous to 1753 the validity of marriage was regulated by ecclesiastical law, not touched by any statutory nullity but modified by the Common law Courts, which sometimes interfered with the Ecclesiastical Courts, by prohibition, sometimes themselves decide on the validity of a marriage, presuming a marriage in fact as opposed to lawful marriage. A religious ceremony by an ordained clergyman was essential to a lawful marriage, at all events for dower and heirship; but if in an i...
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