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. Possessions and revenues of benefices of ancient parishes and
new ecclesiastical parishes. 2. Incumbent a corporation
sole--Restrictions on his acquisition and holding of landed
property--Licence in mortmain--Mortmain and Charitable Uses
Acts--School Sites Acts--Inability to hold as a corporation land
upon trusts. 3. Freehold of church and churchyard of ancient
parish in rector--Chancel repairable by rector--Enforcement of
repairs--Possession and custody of church in incumbent and
churchwardens--Right of incumbent to keys and control of organ
and bells--Canon 88--Right of rector to profits of soil of
churchyard--Felling of trees in churchyard--Freehold of church
and churchyard of new parish in incumbent--Exemption from rates
and contributions to making new streets--Removal of part of
church as a dangerous structure. 4. Rights of bishop and
parishioners in church and churchyard--Power of incumbent as to
ordinary tombstone sand inscriptions in churchyard--Glass shades
for wreaths--Appeal to consistory and higher courts--Faculties
for monuments in church and other alterations and additions in
church and churchyard--Application by incumbent and
churchwardens after resolution of vestry--Consent of rector to
alteration in chancel--Faculty for vault or space for exclusive
burial--Removal of earth or bones from churchyard, or other
desecration--Faculty for diversion of ancient footpath through
churchyard, and for throwing part of churchyard into
highway--Restoration of wall wilfully thrown down--Easement of
light and air over churchyard--Laying out of closed churchyard
as a garden and removal of gravestones--Restrictions as to
building on closed or disused burial-grounds. 5. Glebe,
rectorial and vicarial--Exemption from tithe--Waste--Cultivation
of glebe--Cutting down of trees--Opening and working of mines
and quarries and gravel pits. 6. Statutory facilities for
parsonage houses and other buildings and repair of
chancels--Gilbert Acts--Loans by, and mortgages to Queen Anne's
Bounty--Purchase of land--Building and improving of farm
buildings and labourers' dwellings--Gifts and bequests of
parsonage houses and glebe--Sale and exchange of parsonage
houses and glebe. 7. Letting of parsonage house where incumbent
has licence to reside elsewhere. 8. Farming or letting of
glebe--Agricultural, building, and mining leases. 9. Repair of
parsonage house and glebe buildings--Ecclesiastical
Dilapidations Act, 1871. 10. Diocesan surveyors--Proceedings
(_a_) on vacancies in benefices and (_b_) in other
cases--Exemption from liability for five years after certificate
of surveyor. 11. (_a_) Inspection and report by surveyor on a
vacancy--Objections to report--Order of bishop--Debt from late
incumbent, or his estate, to new incumbent--Payment of amount
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