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Merchant [fr. marchand, Fr.], one who traffics to remote countries; also, any one dealing in the purchase and sale of goods, See Josselyn v. Parson, (1872) LR 7 Exch 127....
Modus decimandi
Modus decimandi, a particular manner of tithing arising from immemorial usage, differing from the payment of one-tenth of the annual increase; being sometimes a pecuniary compensation, as two 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 it for him; sometimes in lieu of a large quantity of crude or imperfect tithe a less quantity when arrived to greater maturity, as a couple of fowls in lieu of tithe eggs and the like. Any means, in short, whereby the general law of tithing was altered and a new method of taking tithes was introduced, was called a modus decimandi, or special manner of tithing, 2 Bl. Com. 29. A too large modus was called a 'rank' modus, and the (English) Tithe Act, 1832 (2 & 3 Wm. 4, c. 100), required evidence of usage for thirty years....
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churching of women, burials, etc.; or at constant times, as at Easter, Christmas, etc, 2 & 3 Edw. 6, cc. 13, 20 (repealed by the Church Assembly Measure, 16 & 17 Geo. 5,No. 5), and 21. Voluntary Easter offerings received by an incumbent are profits accruing to him and are assessable for income tax, Cooper v. Blakiston, 1909 AC 104....
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....
Rector
Rector, a governor; in ecclesiastical law, either a layman, sometimes called a 'lay rector' or 'lay impropriator,' who has that part of the revenues of a church which before the dissolution of the monasteries by King Henry VIII. was appropriated to a monastery, the incumbent generally being a 'vicar'; or, in cases where the living had not been so impropriated and a spiritual person, the 'parson,' who has the whole revenues together with the cure of souls. See 1 Bl. Com. 384.The spiritual head and presiding officer of a church, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1281....
Parsonage
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.'...
Pension of Churches
Pension of Churches, certain sums of money paid to clergymen in lieu of tithes. A spiritual person may sue in the spiritual Court for a pension originally granted and confirmed by the ordinary; but where it is 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....
Poor laws
Poor laws. By the (English) Poor Relief Act, 1601, (43 Eliz. c. 2), frequently called 'The Act of Elizabeth,' overseers of the poor were annually appointed in every parish; the churchwardens of every parish being also ex-officio overseers, except in rural parishes, in which the churchwardens ceased to be overseers by virtue of the Local Government Act, 1894.Overseers of the Poor and Boards of Guardians were abolished (overseers from 1st April, 1927, boards of guardians from 1st April, 1930, except in the Scilly Islands) by the Rating and Valuation Act, 1925, and their powers, duties and property were transferred to local authorities.By the Poor Law Amendment Act, 1834, the administration of the parochial funds and the management of the poor throughout the country were placed for five years under the control of a central board called 'The Poor Law Commissioners'; succeeded in 1847 by a temporary 'Poor Law Board' made perpetual, after many continuances, in 1867; and in 1871, by 'The (Eng...
Juris utrum
Juris utrum, an abolished writ which lay for the parson of a church whose predecessor had alienated the lands and tenements thereof, Fitz. N.B. 48....
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