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Master of the Faculties, an officer under the archbishop, who grants licences and dispensations, etc. The judge of the provincial Courts of Canterbury and York appointed under s. 7 of the (English) Public Worship Regulation Act, 1874, became ex officio Master of the Faculties on the first vacancy occurring after the passing of that Act....
Next presentation
Next presentation, the right to present to an ecclesiastical benefice on the occurrence of the next vacancy. The purchase of the next presentation of a vacant benefice is illegal and void; and a clerk could not purchase a next presentation, even if the church were full, with a view of presenting himself. The sale of next presentations is now abolished and the transfer of rights of patronage of a benefice strictly regulated by the Benefices Act,1898, and the rules made thereunder, and further restricted by the (English) Benefices Act,1898 (Amendment) Measure, 1923 (14 & 15 Geo. 5, No. 1)....
Steward of manor
Steward of manor, the lord's deputy, who transacts all the legal and other business connected with the estate, and takes care of the Court-rolls. The office is usually held by the lord's solicitor. The office has been deprived of much of its importance in consequence of the abolition of copyhold tenure by the (English) Law of Property Act, 1922 (see COPYHOLDS). The scale of compensation to the steward of the manor if he was appointed before the 29th June, 1922, is provided for by the 14th Sch. of the (English) Law of Property Act, 1922, and see the (English) L.P. (Amendment) Act, 1924. See also the (English) L.P. Act, 1922, and the (English) Enfranchised Land (Stewards' Fees) Regulations, S.R. & O., 1926, No. 3, as to fees payable to stewards upon extinguishment of manorial incidents and upon the compulsory production of assurance of former copyholds to him. Upon a vacancy for three months in the office and on other occasions the Lord Chancellor may upon default of the lord of the mano...
Plenarty
Plenarty [plenus, full, Lat.], said of a benefice when full, or possessed by an incumbent; opposed to vacancy, 3 Steph. Com....
Public Worship Regulation Act, 1874
Public Worship Regulation Act, 1874 (English) (37 & 38 Vict. c. 85). By this Act'which proceeds on the preamble that it is expedient that in certain cases further regulations should be made for the administration of the laws relating to the performance of divine service according to the use of the Church of England'it was provided that whensoever a vacancy should occur in the office of official principal of the Arches Court of Canterbury (see ARCHES COURT), the judge appointed under that Act should become ex officio such official principal, and all proceedings thereafter taken before the judge in relation to mattes arising within the province of Canterbury should be deemed to be taken in the Arches Court of Canterbury. The Court may be set in motion on representation by one archdeacon, or churchwarden, or any three parishioners declaring themselves to be members of the Church of England: (1) that in any church any alteration in or addition to the fabric, ornaments, or furniture thereof...
Recruitment year
Recruitment year, means the English calendar year during which the recruitment is actually made, Maharashtra State Public Services (Reservation for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, De-Notified Tribes (Vimukta Jatis) Nomadic Tribes, Special Backward Categories and Other Backward Classes) Act, 2001, s. 2(j).Means the year in which recruitment is actually made, S. Rajendran v. Union of India, (1998) 3 SCC 620.The recruitment year is the year in which recruit-ment takes place, but not each three successive years in which the vacancy exists, Harish Chandra Ram v. Mukh Ram Dubey, 1994 Supp (2) SCC 490 (492)....
Sole, Corporation
Sole, Corporation, one person and his successors, who are incorporated by law, in order to give them some legal capacities and advantages, particularly that of perpetuity, which in their natural persons they could not have had; as the sovereign, a bishop, parson, etc., Steph. Com., 7th Edn., i. 358; iii. 4.The word 'successors' was essential in order to pass the fee simple in a grant to a corporation sole; without it, a life estate only passes: Co. Litt. 94 b. Words of limitation are not now necessary to convey land to a corporation sole [(English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 60], and by s. 180 (ibid.) any property which vested at any time in a corporation sole, including the Crown, passes and always has passed to his successors unless disposed of by him, and on his death it does not pas to his personal representatives but to his successor [Administration of Estates Act, 1925, s. 3 (5)]. In the event of a vacancy in office, see s. 180, L.P. Act, 1925. As to the property on a dissolut...
Master of Reports and Entries
Master of Reports and Entries. This Chancery official was not to be continued after the next vacancy occurring after the Act 18 & 19 Vict. c. 134....
Guardian of the spiritualities
Guardian of the spiritualities, the person to whom the spiritual jurisdiction of any diocese is committed during the vacancy of the see...
Fruit fallen
Fruit fallen, the produce of any possession detached thereform, and capable of being enjoyed by itself. Thus, a next presentation, when a vacancy has occurred, is a fruit fallen from the advowson....
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