Chantry
Defined in 7 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Stimson (1881), Burrill (1850)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
A church or chapel endowed with lands for the maintenance of priests to say mass daily for the souls of the donors. Termes de la Ley; Cowell.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
A church or chapel endowed with lands for the maintenance of priests to say mass daily for the souls of the donors. Termes de la Ley; Cowell.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
chauntry. In old English chapel endowed with lands or other tenance of one or more priests to sing.'or souls of the donors, and such others as
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A church or chapel endowed with lands for the maintenance of priests to say mass daily for the souls of the donors. Termes de la Ley; Cowell.
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Chauntry. A church, lands for the maintenance of priests sing masses for the repose of the
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
Chauntry. [L. Lat. cantorta.] In old English ecc Iesiasti Gal law. A church or chapel endowed with lands or other yearly revenues for the maintenance of one or more priests to sing [or chant, cantare,'] mass daily for the souls of the donors, and such others as they appointed. Termes de la ley. CowelL Spelman, voc. Cantaria. See 4 Co. 96, Adams d: Lam' berths caite, where a will granting such an endowment is given. — A private religious foundation, of which there were many in England before the Reformati(Hi, established for the purpose of keeping up a perpetual succession of prayers for the prosperity of some particular family while living, and the repose of the souls of those members of it who were deceased; but especially of the founder and other persons specifically named by him in the instrument of foundation. P. Cycloposdia. They were usually little chapels, or particular altars in some cathedral or parochial church. Blount. See P. CycU^^ia.