Chapel of ease
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
In English ecclesiastical Jaw. A cbapel founded in general at some period later than the parochial church itself, mid designed for the accommodation of such of the parishioners as, in course of lime, had begun to fix their residence at some distance from its site; and so termed because built in aid of the original church.
3 Steph. Comm. 151.