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Easter Offerings

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

or EASTER dues.

In English law

Small sums of money paid to the parochial clergy by the parishioners at Easter as a compensation for personal tithes or the tithe for personal labor.

2 & 3 Edw. IV. c. 13; 2 & 3 Vict. c. 62, § 9.