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Rectorial tithes

Rectorial tithes, great or predial tithes....


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)....


Rectory

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


Tithe Rent-Charge

Tithe Rent-Charge. A charge on land, substituted by commutation for that charge on the produce of the land for the benefit of the Church, which was called tithe from being the tenth part of the increase yearly arising and renewing from the profits of lands, the stock upon lands, and the personal industry of the inhabitants; the first species being usually called pr'dial, the second mixed, the third personal.This commutation was effected by a procedure set on foot by the (English) Tithe Act, 1836 (6 & 7 Wm. 4, c. 71), amended by subsequent Acts. See Chitty's Stat., tit. 'Tithe Rent-Charge.' The amount to be paid was annually adjusted, according to the price of corn.The commutation was effected in one of two ways-either by a voluntary parochial agreement, con-firmed by the commissioners, or by the compulsory award of the commissioners. The value, either voluntarily agreed upon or awarded by the commissioners, was considered as the amount of the total rent-charge to be paid in respect of ...


Rectorial

Pertaining to a rector or a rectory rectoral...


Mixed tithes

Mixed tithes, tithes of wool, milk, pigs, etc., consisting of natural products, but nurtured and preserved in part by the care of man. See Com. Dig., tit. 'Dismes' (F. 2), and post, TITHES....


Copyhold, Inclosure, and Tithe Commissioners

Copyhold, Inclosure, and Tithe Commissioners, a board constituted under the (English) Inclosure Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict.c.118). The powers of these commissioners, of the copyhold commissioners, and of the tithe commissioners, were by s. 48 of the Settled Land Act, 1882, vested in one board called 'the Land Commissioners,' whose powers were in their turn transferred to the Board of Agriculture (now the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries), by the (English) Board of Agriculture Act, 1889....


Privy tithes

Privy tithes, small tithes....


Rate-tithe

Rate-tithe, when any sheep or other cattle are kept in a parish for less time than a year, the owner must pay tithe for them pro rata, according to the custom of the place, Fitz. N. B. 51....


Small tithes

Small tithes [otherwise called privy], all personal and mixed tithes, and also hops, flax, saffrons, potatoes, and sometimes, by custom, wood, 2 Steph. Com...


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