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Vicarage

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

In Ecclesiastical law. The living or benefice of a vicar: usually consisting of the small tithes.

1 Burn, Eccl. Law 75, 79. VICARI US AP0ST0LICUS.

An officer through whom the Pope exercises authority in parts remote, and who is sometimes sent with episcopal functions into provinces where there is no bishop resident or there has been a long vacancy in the see, or into infidel or heretical countries.

2 Phill. Int. L. 529.