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and burials therein; and the (English) Parochial Registers Act, 1812 (52 Geo. 3, c. 146), directs the rector, vicar, curate, or officiating minister to make and keep similar registers, the books to remain in their custody in

Rector

Rector, a governor; in ecclesiastical law, either a layman, sometimes called a 'lay rector' or 'lay impropriator,' who has that part of the revenues of a church which before the dissolution of the monasteries by King...

Portioner

he has only a portion of the tithes or profits of the living; also an allowance which a vicar commonly has out of a rectory or impropriation.

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Poor laws

parish; and the Act of Elizabeth directed that it should be raised by' taxation of every inhabitant, parson, vicar, and other, and of every occupier of lands, houses, tithes impropriate, propriations of tithes, coal mines, or saleable

Physician

assisted by the faculty); or beyond these limits without licence from the bishop of his diocese or his vicar-general similarly assisted, sav-ing the privileges of the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford. The superintendence of the bishops was

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that the pews or part of them shall not be let. A mortgage of pew rents by the vicar of a district church is void under the Act 13 Eliz. c. 20 (Ex parte Arrowsmith, (1878) 8

Perpetual curate

who is charged with the permanent care of a parochial church, which, although an appropriation, has no endowed vicar. He is entitled to emolument for his services. By the Church Building Act, 1831, churches or chapels built

Residence

'residence', Bhagwan Dass v. Kamal Abrol, AIR 2005 SC 2583. Abode; also the continuance of a parson or vicar on his benefice. It is upon the supposition of residence that the law styles every parochial minister an

Offerings

Offerings, personal tithes, payable by custom to the parson or vicar of a parish, either occasionally, as at sacraments, marriages, churching of women, burials, etc.; or at constant times,

Parish

church reside.) It is that circuit of ground which is committed to the care of one parson or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein, 1 Bl. Com. 111. An extended definition of 'parish' for

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