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Parson mortal

Parson mortal [fr. persona mortalis, Lat.], a rector instituted and inducted for his own life. But any collegiate or conventual body, to whom a church was

Parish Priest

a minister who holds a parish as a benefice. If the predial tithes are unappropriated, he is called rector; if appropriated, vicar.

Ordination

on application for only orders is the possession of a title--that is, a sort of assurance from a rector to the bishop that, provided the latter finds the person fit to be ordained, the former will take

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Lay impropriators

having been afterwards granted out from time to time by the Crown to laymen. See APPROPRIATION AND LAY RECTOR.

Births, Marriages, and Deaths

to marriages by the Act of 1836), is to a similar effect with regard to registration 'by the rector, vicar, curate, or officiating minister of every parish, or of any chapelry,' of 'public and private baptisms, marriages,

Churchyard

Churchyard is the freehold of the rector or vicar, subject to the right of parishioners to be buried in it. The Statute of Winchester, 13

Chancel

Chancel, the part of a church in which the communion table stands; it belongs to the rector or the impropriator, 2 Br. & Had.Com. 420. As to a pew in a chancel, see Parker v.

Building

to the (English) Disused Burial Grounds Act, 1884 (47 & 48 Vict. c. 72), an electricity transformer chamber, Rector and Churchwardens of the Parish of St. Nicholas Acons v. London County Council, 1928 AC 469 and a

Rectory

The province of a rector a parish church parsonage or spiritual living with all its rights tithes and glebes

Rectorial

Pertaining to a rector or a rectory rectoral

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