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Exhibition, an allowance for meat and drink, usually made by religious appropriators of churches to the vicar. Also, the benefaction settled for the maintaining of scholars in the universities, not depending on the foundation, Paroch.Antiq.

Excommunication

Jenkins v. Cook, (1876) 1 PD 80, in which the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council admonished a vicar to refrain from refusing to administer the Communion to a parishioner. The old law was thus put:--Excommunicato interdicitur

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Endowment

any person or use. The assuring dower to a woman; the setting forth a sufficient portion for a vicar towards his perpetual maintenance when the benefice is appropriated; the creation of a perpetual provision out of lands

Curate

simply. A curate in this sense is an officiating temporary minister, regularly employed by the spiritual rector or vicar either to serve in his absence or as his assistant. All curates serve under a licence from the

Churchyard

Churchyard is the freehold of the rector or vicar, subject to the right of parishioners to be buried in it. The Statute of Winchester, 13 Edw. 1,

Chancellor of a Diocese, or of a Bishop

hold the Bishop's Court in his diocese, and to adjudicate upon matters of ecclesiastical law. He is the vicar-general of the bishop, and by Canon 127 must be at least 26 years old, must be learned in

Bishop

archdeacon, dean and chapter, chancellor who holds his Court and assists him in matters of ecclesiastical law, and vicar-general. As to the resignation of archbishops and bishops when incapacitated by age or other infirmities, and appointment of

Births, Marriages, and Deaths

marriages by the Act of 1836), is to a similar effect with regard to registration 'by the rector, vicar, curate, or officiating minister of every parish, or of any chapelry,' of 'public and private baptisms, marriages, and

Archdeacon

and inducts clerks upon receipt of the bishop's mandate, Wood's Inst. 30. The Law styles him the bishop's vicar or vicegerent.

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