Rector

Defined in 6 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Stimson (1881), Abbott (1879)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

In ecclesiastical law. One who RECTOR PROVINCIAE (Lat.)

In the Roman law. The governor of a province. Code, 1. 40.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

A church officer who presided over a parsonage.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

In Ecclesiastical Law. One who rules or governs: a name given to certain officers of the Roman church. Diet. Canonique. In English Law. He that hath full possessession of a parochial church. A rector (or parson) has for the most part the whole right to all the ecclesiastical dues in his parish; where, as in theory of law, a vicar has an appropriator over him, entitled to the best part of the profits, to whom the vicar is, as it were, perpetual curate, with a standing salary. Cowell; 1 Bla. Com. 384; 2 Steph. Com. 677.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In English law. He that haa full possession of a parochial church. A rector (or parson) has, for the most part, the whole right to all the ecclesiastical dues in his parish; while a vicar bas an appropriator over him, entitled to the best part of the profits, to whom the vicar is, in effect, perpetual curate, with a standing salary. 1 BL Comm. 384, 388. See Bird v. St. Mark's Church, 62 Iowa, 567, 17 N. W. 747.

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

A parson; a clerk having fuU possession of a living and tithes; as distinguished from a vicar, where there has been an appropriation or impropriation of the preedial tithes, and who is as it were the curate of the appropriator, though not removable at his caprice, by Stat. 4 Hen. IV. c. 12; and now commonly the vicarage is endowed. Perpetual curate: the minister of a parish exempted from the operation of 4 Hen. IV. c. 12. Now all parish priests, not rectors, are called vicars; 31 & 32 Vict. c. 117; and a curate can mean only a vicar's or rector's salaried assistant.

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

In ecclesiastical law, the incumbent in full possession of the rights of a parochial church. Rectory: the house and grounds belonging to the parish church, and appropriated to the residence of the incumbent. As opposed to a vicar, a rector is an incumbent of an unappropriated church. A rector (or parson) has for the most part the whole right to all the ecclesiastical dues in his parish; whereas, in theory of law, a vicar has an appropriator over him, entitled to the best part of the profits, to whom the vicar is, as it were, a perpetual curate, with a standing salary. Cowel; 1 Bl. Com. 384-886; 2 Steph. Com. 677-683.