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Modus decimandi

pence per acre for the tithe of land; sometimes a compensation in work and labour, as that the parson should only have the twelfth cock of hay, and not the tenth, in consideration of the owner's making

Offerings

Offerings, personal tithes, payable by custom to the parson or vicar of a parish, either occasionally, as at sacraments, marriages, churching of women, burials, etc.; or at

Parish

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

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Poor laws

the parish; and the Act of Elizabeth directed that it should be raised by' taxation of every inhabitant, parson, vicar, and other, and of every occupier of lands, houses, tithes impropriate, propriations of tithes, coal mines, or

Parsonage

Parsonage. 1. The benefice of a parish. 2. The parson's house. As to borrowing money for building, rebuilding, or

Pension of Churches

granted by a temporal person to a clerk, he cannot; as if one grant an annuity to a parson he must sue for it in the temporal Courts, Cro. Eliz. 675. See previous title.

Person' ecclesi'

Person' ecclesi', the parson or personation of the church.

Jus ad rem

Jus ad rem, an inchoate and imperfect right; such as a parson promoted to a living acquires by nomina-tion and institution. Jus ad rem, means a right in specific property

Residence

place of 'residence', Bhagwan Dass v. Kamal Abrol, AIR 2005 SC 2583. Abode; also the continuance of a parson or vicar on his benefice. It is upon the supposition of residence that the law styles every parochial

Sole, Corporation

that of perpetuity, which in their natural persons they could not have had; as the sovereign, a bishop, parson, etc., Steph. Com., 7th Edn., i. 358; iii. 4. The word 'successors' was essential in order to pass

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