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Home Dictionary Name: tithe commissionersCopyhold, 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....
Tithe Commissioners
Tithe Commissioners, appointed under the Tithe Act, 1836, s. 2; now superseded. See LAND COMMISSIONERS and next title....
Land Commissioners
Land Commissioners, the title by the (English) Settled Land Act, 1882, s. 48, of the Commissioners formerly called 'The Copyhold Inclosure and Tithe Commissioners.' By s. 26 of that Act, a certificate of these Commissioners that an 'improvement' within that Act has been effected is, in the absence of an Order of the Court, an authority to trustees to pay for the improvement out of 'capital money,' and by s. 28 a tenant for life must maintain and repair an 'improvement' at his own expense during such period, if any, as the Commissioners by certificate in any case prescribe.All powers and duties of the Land Commissioners were transferred to the Board of Agriculture by the (English) Board of Agriculture Act, 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c. 30)....
Copyhold Commissioners
Copyhold Commissioners. The tithe commissioners for England and Wales, appointed under the (English) Copyhold Act of 1841 to be the commissioners for carrying that Act into execution....
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 ...
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....
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....
Rectorial tithes
Rectorial tithes, great or predial tithes....
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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