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Perpetual curacy

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

The office of & curate in a parish where there is no spiritual rector or vicar, but where a clerk (curate) is appointed to officiate there hr the impropriator.

2 Burn, Ecc. Law, 55.

The church or benefice filled by a curate under these circumstances is also so called.