The Legal Position of the Clergy

by Philip Vernon Smith

[369] See ch. iii. § 2 (a) above.

[370] 6 & 7 Will. 4, c. 71.

[371] 6 & 7 Will. 4, c. 71, s. 90. The Statutory powers of the Tithe Commissioners are now vested in the Board of Agriculture.

[372] (1839) 2 & 3 Vict. c. 62, s. 28; (1860) 23 & 24 Vict. c. 93, ss. 42, 43; (1886) 49 & 50 Vict. c. 54; (1897) 60 & 61 Vict. c. 23.

[373] (1882) 45 & 46 Vict. c. 37 (Corn Returns).

[374] (1891) 54 & 55 Vict. c. 8.

[375] (1844) 7 & 8 Vict. c. 85, s. 22.

[376] 2 & 3 Edw. 6, c. 13, s. 10 (see (1887) 50 & 51 Vict. c. 59, sch.). The four offering days are Christmas, Easter, Whitsuntide, and the feast of the dedication of the parish church; Gibs. Cod. 705.

[377] 7 & 8 Will. 3, c. 6.

[378] Wats. ch. iii. p. 585; Carthew v. Edwards (1749) Ambl. 71; (1866) L. R. 1 Q. B. 632; Phill. Eccl. Law, Pt. v. ch. iv. § 2, pp. 1242-1245.