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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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