A rector of a parish who has not the cure of souls. 2 Steph. Cqmm. 683. … [Read more...]

Rectification of instrument. In English law. To rectify is to correct or define something which is erroneous or doubtful. Thus, where the parties to an agreement have determined to embody its terms in the appropriate and conclusive form, but the instrument meant to effect this purpose (e. p., a conveyance, settlement, etc.) is, by mutual mistake, so framed as not to express the … [Read more...]

Great or predial tithes. … [Read more...]

As used in the United States Internal revenue laws, this term is not confined to a person who runs spirits through charcoal, but is applied to any one who rectifies or purifies spirits in any manner whatever, or who makes a mixture of spirits with anything else, and sells it under any name. Quantity of Distilled Spirits, 3 Ben. 73, Fed. Cas. No. 11,494. … [Read more...]

An entire parish church, with all its rights, glebes, tithes, and other profits whatsoever; otherwise commonly called a "benefice." See Gibson v. Brockway, 8 N..H. 470, 31 Am. Dec. 200; Pawlet v. Clark, 9 Cranch, 826, 3 L. Ed. 735. A rector's manse, or; parsonage house. Spelman. … [Read more...]