Parish

A district of country, of different extents. As used in the revised statutes, the word is synonymous with county; In re Sup'rs of Election, 28 Fed. S40; as also in I Louisiana. In Ecclesiastical Law. The territory committed to the charge of a parson, or vicar, or other minister.

Ayl. Par. 404; 2 Bla. Com. 112; Iloffm.

Eccl. Law. Although, in the absence of a state church In this country, the status of parishes is comparatively unimportant, yet In the Protesant Episcopal Church, at least, their boundaries and the rights of the clergy therein are quite clearly do lined by canon. In the leading ease of Stubbs and Hoggs v Tyng, decided in New York, in March, 18GS, the defendant was found guilty of violating a eanqn of tho church, in having officiated, without the permission of plaintiffs within the corporate bounds of tho city of New Brunswick, N. J., which then constituted the plaintiff’s parochial cure.

Baum 103.

As to their origin, see 2 Hallam, Mid. Ages, c.

7, p. 144. See, also, 1 Poll. & Maltl. 560.

In New England. Divisions of a town, originally territorial, but which now constitute quasi- corporations, consisting of those connected with a certain church.

See Weston v. Hunt, 2 Mass. 501; Milford v. Godfrey, 1 Pick. (Mass.) 91.

Synonymous with church and used in the same sense as society.

Ayres v. Weed, 10 Conn. 299.