Chapter I: General Legal Position

1. Spiritual, ecclesiastical, and civil status of the clergy. 2.
Sources of Church law. 3. Written and unwritten law--Foreign
Canon law--Pre-Reformation Canons--Acts of Parliament--Canons of
1603--Canons of 1640--Other canons. 4. Decisions of Church
courts--Distinction between judicial and legislative action. 5.
Legal status of the ancient Parish--Rector or Parson--Patronage
or Advowson--Vicar--Perpetual curate. 6. Dissolution of the
Monasteries--Impropriate rectories--New churches and
ecclesiastical parishes--Assistant parochial clergy--Titular
vicars--Incumbent--Curate. 7. Minister in charge--Lecturer. 8.
Status of clergy ordained elsewhere than in England or Ireland,
or ordained for service in the colonies or foreign
countries--Scottish clergy. 9. Benefices--Beneficed and
unbeneficed clergy. 10. Bishops, their relation to the
clergy--Suffragan bishops--Chancellors. 11. Archdeacons. 12.
Rural Deans. 13. Judicial procedure--Church Discipline Act,
1840--Public Worship Regulation Act, 1874--Clergy Discipline
Act, 1892. 14. Abstinence of Clergy from secular pursuits. 15.
Civil exemptions--Municipal and Parliamentary qualifications and
disqualifications. 16. Restrictions as to labour, business, and
trade--Lawful exceptions--Penalties for unlawful trading. 17.
Protection in performance of religious rites--Act against
brawling. 18. Indelibility of Orders--Relinquishment of clerical
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