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IRISH CHURCH ACT 1869 - SECT 72

72. In the construction and for the purposes of this Act the following words
and expressions shall have the meanings hereby assigned to them respectively,
unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant thereto; (that
is to say,)

Definition rep. by SLR 1893 (No.2)

"Lease" shall include an agreement for a lease, or other contract of tenancy,
and the estate or interest created or agreed to be created thereby:

"Ecclesiastical person" shall mean and include any archbishop or bishop, or
person holding any benefice or cathedral preferment as herein-after defined:

"Church" shall include a public chapel or chapel of ease, also a cathedral or
collegiate church:

"Benefice" shall mean and include every parish, rectory, vicarage, perpetual
curacy, donative, chantry, endowed public chapel, parochial chapelry, and
chapelry or district annexed, or reputed to be annexed, to any church or
chapel, and whether the same be or be not within any exempt or peculiar
jurisdiction:

"Glebe house" shall mean a house of residence belonging to any benefice as
herein-before defined:

"Cathedral preferment" shall mean and include every deanery, archdeaconry,
prebend, canonry, chaplaincy, office of minor canon, chantry, office of priest
vicar, vicar choral or choirman, having any prebend or endowment belonging
thereto, or belonging to any body corporate consisting of persons holding any
such office, and also every precentorship, treasurership, sub-deanery,
chancellorship of the church, and other dignity and office in any cathedral or
collegiate church:

"Cathedral corporation" shall mean any dean and chapter or chapter, and also
any corporation of minor canons, or vicars and choirmen, or vicars choral, or
any other subordinate corporation of or belonging to or connected with any
cathedral or collegiate church in Ireland:

"Curate" shall include residentiary preacher or reader:

"Property" shall include things in action and rights of action:

"Jurisdiction" shall mean legal and coercive power, and shall not extend to or
include any power or authority which may be exercised in a voluntary religious
association, upon the footing of mutual contract or agreement.

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