Parsonages Act 1838
1838 c.23
An Act to amend the Law for providing fit Houses for the beneficed Clergy.
Act (except ss. 5 and 16) repealed by Endowments and Glebe Measure 1976 (No. 4), Sch. 8
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5 Colleges, &c. may advance money interest-free to benefices in their patronage for houses. C4
It shall be lawful for any college or hall within the universities of Oxford or Cambridge, or for any other corporate bodies possessed of the patronage of ecclesiastical benefices, to advance and lend any sum or sums of money of which they have the power of disposing, in order to aid and assist the several purposes of this Act, for the building, rebuilding, repairing, or purchasing of any houses or buildings for the habitation or convenience of the clergy, or sites for such houses and buildings, upon benefices in the patronage of such colleges or halls respectively, . . . F4without taking any interest for the same.
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16 Construction of “benefice” in this Act.
In the construction of this Act the word “benefice” shall be deemed, construed, and taken to extend to and comprise all rectories with cure of souls, vicarages, perpetual curacies, and chapelries, the incumbents of which respectively in right thereof shall be corporations sole.
Short title given by Short Titles Act 1896 (c. 14)