Parishioners
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Tlie residents of an English parish, known as " parishioners," have, in that character, important rights of local government. Parishioners are a body politic for many purposes; as to vote at a vestry, if they pay scot and lot: and they have a sole right to raise taxes for their own relief, without the interposition of any superior court; may make by-laws to mend the highway, and to make banks to keep out the sea, and for repairing the church, and making a bridge, &c., or any such thing, for the public good.
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