Chapels
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
Places of worship. They may be either private chapels, such as are built and maintained by a private person for his own use and at his own expense, or free chapels, so called from their freedom or exemption from all ordinary jurisdiction, or chapels of case, which are built by the mother-church for the ease and convenience of its parishioners, and remain under its jurisdiction and control.