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Parsonage. 1. The benefice of a parish. 2. The parson's house. As to borrowing money for building, rebuilding, or repairing a parsonage, see 'Gilbert Act' (16 Geo. 3, c. 53), the Clergy Residences Repair Act, 1776, the Parsonages Act, 1865, and the Parsonages Measure, 1930; and as to dilapidations, see the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Acts, 1871 and 1872, and the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Measures, 1923-1929. Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Church and Clergy.'...
Bounty of Queen Anne
Bounty of Queen Anne, given by royal charter, which was confirmed by Queen Anne (2 Anne, c. 11), whereby all the revenue of first-fruits and tenths (see those titles) which belonged to the English Crown was transferred by Queen Anne to trustees for ever, called 'Governors,' to form a perpetual fund for the augmentation of the maintenance of the poor clergy. After the appropriation of the revenue arising from the payment of first-fruits and tenths to the augmentation of small livings, it was considered a proper extension of this principle to exempt the smaller livings from the incumbrance of those demands; and, for that end, the bishops of each diocese were directed to inquire and certify into the Exchequer what livings did not exceed 50l. a year, according to the improved value at that time; and it was further provided that such livings should be discharged from those dues in future. It has been still further regulated by subsequent statutes, especially by the Queen Anne's Bounty Act, ...
Lay impropriators
Lay impropriators, lay persons to whose use ecclesiastical benefices have been annexed. At the dissolution of the monasteries by stat. 27 Hen. 8, c. 28, and 31 Hen. 8, c. 13, the appropriations of the several parsonages which belonged to them were given to the king. The same had been done in former reigns when the alien priories were dissolved and given to the Crown. From these two roots have sprung all the lay impropriations or secular parsonages, they having been afterwards granted out from time to time by the Crown to laymen. See APPROPRIATION AND LAY RECTOR....
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...
Parsonage
A certain portion of lands tithes and offerings for the maintenance of the parson of a parish...
Pastorium
A parsonage so called in some Baptist churches...
Rectory
The province of a rector a parish church parsonage or spiritual living with all its rights tithes and glebes...
Abeyance, or Abbayance
Abeyance, or Abbayance [fr. abayer, Fr., to expect, to look at anything with open mouth], in expectation, remembrance, and contemplation of law. The word abeyance has been compared to what the civilians call hereditas jacens; for, as the civilians say land and goods jacent, so the common lawyers say that things in a similar condition are in abeyance, as the logicians term it in posse or in understanding. Thus in the case of a parson, who has an estate for life only, the fee simple of his glebe is in abeyance; and when the parsonage is void, the freehold, until a successor be appointed, is in abeyance, 2. Bl. Com. 107. Commonly used as meaning having no present owner, e.g., a peerage is said to be 'in abeyance' when there is no holder thereof....
Appropriation
Appropriation, the annexing of some ecclesiastical benefice to the proper and perpetual use of some religious house, etc., just as impropriation is the annexing a benefice to the use of a lay person or corporation. Appropriation may be severed and the church become disappropriate, if a patron or appropriator present a clerk who is properly instituted and inducted, for he would then become complete parson; also, if a corporation possessing the benefice is dissolved, the parsonage becomes disappropriate at Common Law, Phill. Eccl. Law....
Clerical error
Clerical error, an error in a document which can only be explained by considering it to be a slip or mistake of the party preparing or copying it. Clerical errors in judgments or orders may be corrected by the Court or a judge under R.S.C. Ord. XXVIII., r. 11, and in awards, by the arbitrator, under the Arbitration Act, 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c. 49), s. 7; and for the inherent right of a Court to correct an error or supply an accidental omission, see Milson v. Carter, 1893 AC 640.As to contracts, clerical errors have frequently been corrected by application of the maxims, Qui h'ret in litera, h'ret in cortice, or, Mala grammctica non vitiat chartam. A clerical error in a lease for ninety-four years at a yearly rent 'during the said term of ninety-one years and a quarter' was corrected by the counterpart into ninety-one years and a quarter, in Burchell v. Clark, (1876) 2 CPD 88, by a majority of the Court of Appeal; and see Spyve v. Topham, (1802) 3 East 115; and other cases showing that c...
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