Rector
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
In English law
He that haa full possession of a parochial church. A rector (or parson) has, for the most part, the whole right to all the ecclesiastical dues in his parish; while a vicar bas an appropriator over him, entitled to the best part of the profits, to whom the vicar is, in effect, perpetual curate, with a standing salary.
1 BL Comm. 384, 388. See Bird v. St. Mark's Church, 62 Iowa, 567, 17 N. W. 747.