Rector Sinecure - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Rector, sinecure, one without cure of souls....
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...
Sinecural
Of or pertaining to a sinecure being in the nature of a sinecure...
Lay 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....
Sinecurism
The state of having a sinecure...
Rectoral
Pertaining to a rector or governor...
Rectorate
The office rank or station of a rector rectorship...
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....
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