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Vicarial tithes, petty or small tithes payable to the vicar, 2 Steph. Com....
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 ...
vicarious
vicarious : imposed on one person in place of another see also vicarious liability at liability vi·car·i·ous·ly adv vi·car·i·ous·ness n ...
vicarious liability
vicarious liability see liability ...
Vicarious
Vicarious, Performed or suffered by one person as substitute for another; indirect; surrogate, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1560....
Vicarious responsibility
Vicarious responsibility. A principal is liable for acts of his agent within the scope of his mandate. If A., an innocent principal, by B. his agent to report, misleads C., his selling agent, and C., relying on the report, innocently misleads the buyer, the latter may recover damages against the principal for deceit if B.'s report was reckless and untrue, London County Freehold, etc. Properties, Ltd. v. Berkeley Pro-perty, etc. Co. Ltd., 155 LT 190. The knowledge of the principal and his agent is one, Pearson v. Dublin Corporation 1907 AC 351; although the functions may have been divided and one only of the con-stituents has been guilty, the mind, and with it the guilt, if any, and the act are collectively the principal's, and his responsibility. Qui facit per alium facit per se....
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....
Copyhold, 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....
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....
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