Practical Treatise on the Laws Relating to the Church and the Clergy

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. In other cases, and especially in the different Church Building Acts, where much has been from time to time re-enacted without apparent reason, and where much which is not actually repealed, is nevertheless practically useless, such a course would only have perplexed: and it has been thought sufficient in such cases to give the substance only of what is now in force.

The author has also to express his thanks to the several clergymen who have furnished him with many useful suggestions and much practical information; and for the ready manner in which such information has invariably been given. It is hoped, that in consequence of such communications nothing which can safely be affirmed, and which can be of legal interest or importance to their profession, will be found omitted in the following work.

In other cases, and especially in the different Church Building Acts, where much has been from time to time re-enacted without apparent reason, and where much which is not actually repealed, is nevertheless practically useless, such a course would only have perplexed: and it has been thought sufficient in such cases to give the substance only of what is now in force.The author has also to express his thanks to the several clergymen who have furnished him with many useful suggestions and much practical information; and for the ready manner in which such information has invariably been given. It is hoped, that in consequence of such communications nothing which can safely be affirmed, and which can be of legal interest or importance to their profession, will be found omitted in the following work.