These sample phrases are automatically selected from various online information sources to reflect the current use of the word “church.” The views expressed in the examples do not represent the views of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us your feedback. “Pfarrgericht.” Merriam-Webster.com Legal Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, www.merriam-webster.com/legal/parish%20court. Retrieved 6 November 2022. In English law. A world committed to the responsibility of a pastor or vicar or other preacher who heals the souls within him. 1 Bl. Comm. 111. Wilson v. Staat, 34 Ohio St. 190. The neighborhood of a parish church and the special responsibility of a secular priest Cowell.

An ecclesiastical division of a city or district that is under the service of a pastor. Bramle. In New England. A corporation constituted for the maintenance of public worship, which may coincide with a part of a city, district or parish or include only part of a city, district or parish, is a corporation established solely for the purpose of maintaining public worship, and its powers are limited for that purpose. She can raise money to build and maintain her church and support her minister, but for no other purpose. A city is a civil and political corporation established for communal purposes. They can both live together in the same area and be made up of the same people. Milford v. Godfrey, 1 choice.

(Mass.) 91. In Louisiana. A territorial division of the state equivalent to what is elsewhere called a “county”. See Sherman v. Pfarrei Vermillion, 51 La. Ann. 880, 25 South. 538; Attorney General v. Detroit Common Council, 112 Mich. 148, 70 N. W. 450, 37 L.

R. A. 211. In English law. A world committed to the responsibility of a pastor or vicar or other preacher who heals the souls within him. 1 Bl. Comm. 111. Wilson v. Staat, 34 Ohio St. 199.

The neighborhood of a parish church and the special responsibility of a secular priest Cowell. An ecclesiastical division of a city or district that is under the service of a pastor. Brande. In New England. A corporation constituted for the maintenance of public worship, which may coincide with a part of a city, district or parish or include only part of a city, district or parish, is a corporation established solely for the purpose of maintaining public worship, and its powers are limited for that purpose. He may raise funds for the construction and maintenance of his meeting house and the support of his agent, but for no other purpose. A city is a civil and political corporation established for communal purposes. They can both live together in the same area and be made up of the same people. Milford v. Godfrey, 1 choice.

(Mass.) 91. In Louisiana. A partial division of the state equivalent to what is elsewhere called a “county”. Parish apprentice. In English law. Children of parents who are unable to support themselves may be apprenticed by guardians or supervisors in their ward to persons willing to accept them as apprentices. These children are called “parish apprentices.” 2 Steph. Komm. 230. Pfarrkirche.

This expression has different meanings. It is sometimes applied to a small group of Christians forming a local spiritual association, and sometimes to the building where the public worship of the inhabitants of a parish is celebrated; But the true legal concept of the parish church is a consecrated place to which the right of burial and the administration of the sacraments are linked. Story, J., Pawlet v. Clark, 9 Cranch, 326, 3 L. Ed. 735. Pfarrschreiber. In English law. An officer, formerly often in holy orders, and appointed to officiate at the altar; Now his duty is mainly to respond to the preacher in the church. According to the general law, he has a property in his office, but it now seems to be forgotten. 2 Steph. Comm.

700; Mozley & Whitley. Parish Constable. A small constable who performs his duties in a particular parish. Mozley & Whitley. Parish courtyard. The name of a court established in each parish in Louisiana and corresponding to county courts or common trial courts in other states. It has limited civil jurisdiction, in addition to general powers of succession. Municipal officials. Church rector, overseer and constable. Pastor. In English law. The priest; A pastor who runs a parish as a benefactor.

If the pradial tithe is appropriate, it is called “rector” if it is not appropriate, “vicar.” Wharton. MUNICIPALITY. A neighborhood of different sizes. In canon law, it referred to the field that was subject to the responsibility of a pastor, vicar or other minister. Ayl. Parerg. 404; 2 Bl. Komm.

112. In Louisiana, the state is divided into parishes. In the U.S. state of Louisiana, a state subdivision the equivalent of a county. It administers the administration of part of the state and part of the state power is delegated to the parish. See State ex rel. Centani v. Marrero.

As delegated organs of the state, the Louisiana Constitution provides that the state legislature may dissolve boundaries, alter boundaries, or create new communities. Constitution of the State of Los Angeles, art. VI § 1. The term comes from the Spanish and French history of Louisiana when it was Roman Catholic. Britannica English: Community translation for Arabic speakers [Last updated August 2020 by Wex Definitions Team] Parish of Middle English, Anglo-French Paroche, parosse, Late Latin parochia, Late Greek paroikia, Christian paroikos, Greek, foreign, para- + oikos house â nearest Powered by Black`s Law Dictionary, Free 2nd ed., and The Law Dictionary. An area served by a particular church; a church district. n. 1) A geographic area served by a church (especially Catholic) that was originally measured by the fact that people living in the area could attend church. 2) in Louisiana, the equivalent of a county. 14th century, in the sense 1a(1).