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Assise de utrum
Assise de utrum, an obsolete writ, which lay for the parson of a church whose predecessor had alienated the land and rents of it, Fitz. N. B. 48.
Bull and boar
Bull and boar. By the custom of some places the parson was obliged to keep these animals for the use of the parishioners, in consideration of his having tithes
Common
to him and his heirs by deed, or it may be claimed by prescriptive right, as by a parson of a church or a corporation sole. The right cannot be granted for an unlimited number of cattle.
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Corporation or body politic
time. It is either aggegate, consisting of many members, or sole, consisting of one person only, as a parson. It is also either spiritual, created to perpetuate the rights of the Church, or lay'sub-divided into civil, created
De non residentia clerici regis
De non residentia clerici regis, an ancient writ where a parson was employed in the royal service, etc., to excuse and discharge him of non-residence. 2 Inst. 264.
Easter offerings, or Easter dues
Service of the Prayer Book to the effect that 'yearly at Easter every Parishioner shall reckon with the Parson, Vicar, or Curate, or his or their Deputy or Deputies, and pay to them or him all Ecclesiastical
Churchyard
markets in churchyards; a statute of uncertain date (perhaps 35 Edw. 1), the felling of trees indiscreetly by parsons; and the (English) Ecclesiastical Courts Jurisdiction Act, 1860 (23 & 24 Vict. c. 32), punishes riotous, violent or
Ecclesiastical Corporations
the members of which are exclusively spiritual persons. They are of two kinds: corporations sole-viz., bishops, certain deans, parsons, and vicars; and corporations aggregate-viz., deans and chapters, and formerly prior and convent, abbot and monks, and the
Influencing the thinking
a value on assets and partly a matter of arithmetical calculation, Reg. v. Legal Aid Board, Ex parte Parsons, 1997 All ER 347. See also Reg. v. Legal Aid Appeal Committee, Exp. McCormick (Q.B.D.), (2000) 1 WLR
Spiritual corporations
and perpetuating the rights of the Church. They are of two sorts: (1) Sole, as bishops, certain deans, parsons and vicars; or (2) Aggregate, as dean and chapter, prior and convent, abbot and monks.
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