The Legal Position of the ClergySmith, Philip Vernon
Religion
The Legal Position of the Clergy
Smith, Philip Vernon
Canon law; Clergy -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Great Britain; Ecclesiastical law -- Great Britain
1. Admission by bishop on presentation of patron--Lapse to
bishop, archbishop, or Crown. 2. Transfers of advowsons or
rights of presentation--Next presentations--Power of patron to
present himself--Restrictions under Benefices Act, 1898. 3.
Qualification for admission--Grounds for refusal by
bishop--Testimony as to fitness. 4. Procedure in case of refusal
by bishop. 5. Publication of notice of intended admission. 6.
Mode of admission--Institution--Licence--Collation--Declarations
of assent and against simony--Oaths of allegiance and canonical
obedience--Reading of Thirty-nine Articles. 7. Effect of
admission--Induction. 8. Fees on admission. 9. Cure of
Souls--Duties laid down in Ordination Service--Residence--Divine
service--Marriages--Burials--Private ministrations. 10.
Exclusive right of administration--Superior right of
bishop--Modern comity as between town parishes. 11. Private
ministrations--Service in unconsecrated buildings--Meetings for
worship. 12. Private chapels--Chapels of
institutions--Unconsecrated proprietary chapels. 13. Formation
of new parishes--Approval or otherwise of incumbent. 14. Holding
of two benefices. 15. Neglect of duty--Commission of
inquiry--Procedure on adverse report of Commission. 16.
Residence on benefice--Forfeitures for non-residence--Bishop's
licence of non-residence--Grounds for licence. 17. Monition,
sequestration, and avoidance of benefice for non-residence. 18.
Performance of duties where incumbent is non-resident. 19.
Restrictions on interfering with duties during period of
non-residence. 20. Reckoning of time as to residence. 21.
Vacation of benefice by death, resignation, admission to other
preferment, or deprivation. 22. Resignation; unconditional
except upon an exchange--Engagement to resign illegal except
under Clergy Resignation Bonds Act, 1828--Corrupt resignations
and exchanges--Pensions under Incumbents Resignation Acts. 23.
Vacation of benefice on admission to other preferment. 24.
Deprivation _ipso facto_--Declaration of vacancy by bishop on
conviction of incumbent in certain cases--Sentences of
deprivation under Acts of 1840 and 1892 pages 25-54
CHAPTER III
UNBENEFICED CLERGY
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