Rector
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
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.