Rector - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: rectorLay Rector
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....
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....
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...
Rectoral
Pertaining to a rector or governor...
Rectorate
The office rank or station of a rector rectorship...
Rector, sinecure
Rector, sinecure, one without cure of souls....
Rectorial
Pertaining to a rector or a rectory rectoral...
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....
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