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Common

the supervision of the Board of Agriculture. A district council may delegate its powers of management to a parish council, and a parish council may contribute to the expenses of management. Compensation, to be ascertained under the

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

Parochial

Of or pertaining to a parish restricted to a parish as parochial duties parochial schools

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Annexation

of the church lands by the Crown, and the union of land lying at a distance from the parish church to which they belong, to the church of another parish to which they are contiguous. The permanent

Burial

Burial. Burial in some part of the parish churchyard without payment is a Common Law right, but not burial in any particular part of it. In

Burial ground

of England, Vol. 10, 4th Edn., Para 1226, p. 864. The Common Law place of burial is the parish churchyard; but the growth of population and sanitary reasons having made additional burial grounds necessary, these began to

Chapel

a building either adjoining to a church, for performing divine service, or separate from the mother-church, where the parish is large, and then called a chapel of ease, for the accommodation of those parishioners who dwell at

Clergy

deans and chapters, archdeacons, rural deans, parsons (either rectors or vicars) and curates, to which may be added parish clerks. The clergy are exempt from serving on juries; restrained from farming more than 80 acres, except with

Churchways

within the reports in a churchway. A customary churchway is a right of way in favour of the parishioners to go to and form the parish clash over the land of a private individual owner, and is

Constable

Constable by the (English) High Constables Act, 1869 (32 & 33 Vict. c. 67), and of that of Parish Constable by the Parish Constables Act, 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 92), which Act, however, still allows

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