The Legal Position of the Clergy

by Philip Vernon Smith

[139] Hubbard v. Penrice (1746) 2 Str. 1245.

[140] Butt v. Fellowes (1843) 3 Curt. 680.

[141] Stoughton v. Reynolds (1736) 2 Str. 1045; R. v. Bp. of Salisbury (1901) 1 K. B. 573; aff. 2 K. B. 225.

[142] (1818) 58 Geo. 3, c. 45, s. 75; (1838) 1 & 2 Will. 4, c. 38, s. 25; (1843) 6 & 7 Vict. c. 37, s. 17; (1845) 8 & 9 Vict. c. 70, ss. 6, 7; (1856) 19 & 20 Vict. c. 104, ss. 14, 15.

[143] (1838) 1 & 2 Will. c. 38, s. 16; (1845) 8 & 9 Vict. c. 70, s. 7.

[144] Canon 118; Bray v. Somer (1862) 2 B. & Sm. 374: 8 Jur. N. S. 716; Bremner v. Hull (1866) L. R. 1 C. P. 748; Reg. v. Sowter (1901) 1 K. B. 66; rev. Ib. 396. For further particulars as to the qualifications and election of churchwardens of ancient parish churches and the churches enumerated in the note to ch. i. § 6 above, see Sm. Churchw. 22-43.

[145] Sm. Churchw. 34, 59-64.

[146] Stat. 13 Edw. 1 (Circumspecte agatis); Canon 85; ch. ix. § 3 below.

[147] Att.-Gen. v. Ruper (1722) 2 P. Wms. 125.

[148] Sm. Churchw. pt. iii. ch. i.-iii.; pp. 50-84.