Perpetual
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
Continuous; enduring; lasting; unlimited in respect of time.
Perpetual curate
A permanent minister in holy orders of an " appropriated " church in which no vicar had been endowed, was, until the year 1868, called a perpetual a church (not being a rector), who is entitled to perform marriages, &c., and to claim the fees for his own use, shall be deemed and styled a vicar, and his benefice a vicarage.
2 St(ph. Com. 682, 683.
Perpetual injunction
An injunction which is not merely temporary or provisional, and which cannot be dissolved except by appeal, or some proceedmg in the nature of an appeal. An interim injunction, granted on motion, is sometimes made perpetual by the decree. Hunt Eq.