Parish
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A district of country, of different extents. In Ecclesiastical Law. The territory committed to the charge of a parson, or vicar, or other minister.
Ayliffe, Par. 404; 2 Bl. Comm. 112.
In Louisiana. Divisions corresponding to counties. In New England. Divisions of a town, originally territorial, but which now constitute quasi-corporations, consisting of those connected with a certain church.
See 2 Mass. 501; 7 Mass. 447; 16 Mass. 457, 488, 492 et seq.; 1 Pick. (Mass.) 91.