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Parish Priest
Parish Priest, the parson; a minister who holds a parish as a benefice. If the predial tithes are unappropriated, he is called
Merchant
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
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
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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
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...
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.
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
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