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A donative parish (or "peculiar") was one that was exempt from diocesan jurisdiction. [1] There are several reasons for peculiars but usually they were held by a senior churchman from another district, parish or diocese, and gave livings (salaries or use of property) to those clergy chosen by the donor or donor's heir.
The current land registration system in Scotland divides Scotland into 33 Registration Counties, [6] each coming into effect on various dates between 1981 and 2003. These areas in most cases resemble those of the pre-1975 administrative counties with Glasgow being the only current city to form a registration county.
A parish is an administrative division used by several countries. To distinguish it from an ecclesiastical parish , the term civil parish is used in some jurisdictions, as noted below. The table below lists countries which use this administrative division:
First attested in English in the late 13th century, the word parish comes from the Old French paroisse, in turn from Latin: paroecia, [2] the Romanisation of the Ancient Greek: παροικία, romanized: paroikia, "sojourning in a foreign land", [3] itself from πάροικος (paroikos), "dwelling beside, stranger, sojourner", [4] which is a compound of παρά (pará), "beside, by, near ...
Civil parishes in Ireland are based on the medieval Christian parishes, adapted by the English administration and by the Church of Ireland. [1] The parishes, their division into townlands and their grouping into baronies, were recorded in the Down Survey undertaken in 1656–58 by surveyors under William Petty.
Those extraterritorial land parcels influenced the formation of parish boundaries where the parcels were significant to the parish. Thus secular land in an exclave, almost always manor, may have been the site of a prosperous farmstead, or remained part of the manor for generations, or the lord/lady of the manor may have held the right to ...
The Irish parish was based on the Gaelic territorial unit called a túath or Trícha cét. [dubious – discuss] Following the Norman invasion of Ireland, the Anglo-Norman barons retained the tuath, later renamed a parish or manor, as a unit of taxation. [2] The civil parish was formally created by Elizabethan legislation.
Legal documents (such as grants, titles or transfers) that describe a particular parcel of land do so by reference to the county, parish, township (if there is one), section, crown allotment number, and certified plan number [3] — for example: "County of Dalhousie, Parish of Lauriston, being 2 hectares, being Crown Allotment 2, Section 40 ...