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Unitarians, Protestant Dissenters who do not hold the doctrine of the Trinity. They were excepted from the benefit of the Toleration Act until 1813, when the Act 53 Geo. 3, c. 160, repealed the in capacities and penalties imposed by earlier statutes. The holding of Unitarian opinions was no offence at Common Law: see Shore v. Wilson, (1842) 9 Cl&Fin 355 (Lady Hewley's Charities). Trusts for the benefit of Unitarians are accordingly enforceable [Shrewsbury v. Hornby, (1846) 5 Ha 406; Re Barnett, (1860) 29 LJ Ch 871; Re Wall, (1889) 42 Ch D 510]. See DISSENTERS....
Dissenters Chapels Act
Dissenters Chapels Act (7 & 8 Vict. c. 45), (statutory title, 'The (English) Nonconformist Chapels Act, 1844'), an Act passed in 1844 for the relief of Unitarians, though it applies to Nonconformists of every description. Its effect is to exclude, by a special law of limitation made for that express purpose, all inquiry into the conformity or otherwise of the doctrines taught or ritual practised in any chapel or meeting-house of any Non-conformist body, or the intentions of the founders by whom the building or its accessories or endowments were given, when such doctrines have been taught there, or such ritual practised, for the last twenty-five years; unless they are, in express terms, prohibited or excluded by some written instrument governing the foundation. The Act was passed inconsequence of the decision in what is commonly known as 'Lady Hewley's Case', Shore v. Wilson, (1842) 9 Cl&F 355, in which it was held by the House of Lords that Unitarian congregations, inspite of long and ...
Racovian
One of a sect of Socinians or Unitarians in Poland...
Dissenters
Dissenters, Protestant seceders from the Established Church. They are of many denominations, principally Presbyterians, Independents or Congregationalists, Methodists, and Baptists; but as to Church government the Baptists are Independents.The penal laws, for the enforcement of legal uniformity, have been abrogated. The (English) Toleration Act, 1 W. & M. st. 1, c. 18, extended to Unitarians by 53 Geo. 3, c. 160, first allowed dissenters to assemble for religious worship according to their own forms in places of meeting duly certified; as to such places, see now 18 & 19 Vict. c. 81, and 19 & 20 Vict. c. 119, ss. 17, 27. The (English) Dissenters Chapels Act, 1844 (see that title), provided for meeting-houses; and the (English) Trustees Appointment Act, 1850 (13 & 14 Vict. c. 28), commonly called (English) Peto's Act, amended by the (English) Trustees Appointment Act, 1890 (53 & 54 Vict. c. 19), provides for facilities in regard to the appointment of trustees andthe title to lands purcha...
Presbyterians
Presbyterians, a sect of Christians chiefly to be found in Scotland and Ireland (see 34 Vict. c. 24), who do not acknowledge the authority of bishops. In England the term 'Presbyterian' originally designated a distinct body of Protestant Dissenters. The Presbyterian form of worship was established in England during the Commonwealth, and when the Presbyterian ministers who filled the churches were ejected by the Act of Uniformity in 1662 they spread over the country and founded Presbyterian churches in almost every part of it. In process of time, however, many of these Presbyterian congregations gradually changed their views, some becoming Independents, others Baptists, and not a few became Unitarians, see A.-G. v. Bunce, (1868) LR 6 Eq 563....
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