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Lay Rector. A person holding by title under lay impropriation (see that title). As to the lay rector's liability to repair, see Morley v. Leacroft, 1896, P. 92, and Stuart v. Haughley Parish Church Council, 104 LJ Ch 314, with the rights to contribution from other lay impropriators. As to any right to occupy a seat in the chancel of a church, see Stileman-Gibbard v. Wilkinson, (1897) 1 QB 749....
Sinecure rector
Sinecure rector, a rector without cure of souls. Sinecure rectories are now abolished by 3 & 4 Vict. c. 113, s. 48, and 4 & 5 Vict. c. 39, s. 17. See 2 Steph. Com...
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....
Rector, sinecure
Rector, sinecure, one without cure of souls....
Maine-port
Maine-port, A small tribute (such as loaves of bread) that parishioners pay to the rector in lieu of tithes, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 964 It is a small tribute, commonly of loaves of bread, which in some places the parishioners paid to the rector in lieu of small tithes....
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...
Vicar
Vicar, one who performs the functions of another; a substitute. Also, the incumbent of an appropriated or impropriated benefice, as distinguished from the incumbent of a non-impropriated benefice, who is called a rector. See RECTOR, and 31 & 32 Vict. c. 117, s. 2....
Curate
Curate [fr. Curator, Lat.], is a term properly applied to one who has the cure of souls, namely, the incumbent of a parish. The incumbent may have to assist him an 'assistant' or 'stipendiary' curate, often called 'curate' simply. A curate in this sense is an officiating temporary minister, regularly employed by the spiritual rector or vicar either to serve in his absence or as his assistant. All curates serve under a licence from the bishop of the diocese, revocable at his discretion, with an appeal against the revocation of the licence to the archbishop only [(English) Pluralities Act, 1838 (1 & 2 Vict. c. 106), s. 98; Poole v. Bishop of London, (1861) 7 Jur. N. S. 347]; and the law, on the other hand, has made several provisions for their proper maintenace, Pluralities Act, 1838, ss. 75-103; (English) Pluralities Act, 1884 (48 & 49 Vict. c. 54), ss. 8, 10. See PERPETUAL CURATE....
Registration for preservation
Registration for preservation. In Scotland any deed may be registered in the books of Council and Session for preservation (stamp 10s.); official extracts are equivalent to originals. See also WILLS.Registration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages.Ecclesiastical Registration.--The 70th Canon made in 1603 directs the churchwardens of every parish to provide a register, and the minister to enter baptisms, marriages, and burials therein; and the (English) Parochial Registers Act, 1812 (52 Geo. 3, c. 146), directs the rector, vicar, curate, or officiating minister to make and keep similar registers, the books to remain in their custody in an iron chest, and copies thereof to be transmitted annually to the registrars of each diocese. So much of this Act as related to marriages was repealed by the (English) Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1836. Consult Hubback on Succession, pp. 469 et seq.Civil Registration.--A general registry office was established by the (English) Births and Deaths Regi...
Rectory
Rectory, a spiritual non-impropriated living, com-posed of land, tithes, and other oblations of the people, separate or dedicate to God, in any congregation for the service of His Church there, and for the maintenance of the governor or the minister thereof, to whose charge the same is committed, Spelm. Also, the house in which the rector resides. 'By the grant of a rectory or personage will pass the house, the glebe, the tithes, and offerings belong to it' (Shep. Touch. P. 93)....
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