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DILAPIDATION (Lat. for " scattering the stones," lapides, of a building)

DILAPIDATION (See also:
LAT
Lat. for " scattering the stones," lapides, of a See also:
BUILDING
building) , a See also:

TERM

term meaning in See also:

general a falling into decay, but more particularly used in the plural in See also:

ENGLISH

English See also:

law for (1) the See also:

WASTE (O. Fr. wast, guast, gast, gaste; Lat. vastus, vast, desolate)

waste committed by the See also:

INCUMBENT (from Lat. incumbere, to lean, lie upon)

incumbent of an ecclesiastical living; (2) the disrepair for which a See also:

TENANT (from Lat. tenere, to hold)

tenant is usually liable when he has agreed to give up his premises in See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good repair (see See also:

EASEMENT (Fr. aise; O. Fr. aisement; Anglo-Lat. aisiamentum, a privilege or convenience)

EASEMENT; See also:

FLAT (a modification of O. Eng. flet, an obsolete word of Teutonic origin, meaning the ground beneath the feet)

FLAT; LANDLORD AND TENANT). By the general law a tenant for See also:

LIFE

life has no See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power to cut down See also:

TIMBER

timber, destroy buildings, &c, (voluntary waste), or to let buildings fall into disrepair (per-missive waste). In the See also:

eye of the law an incumbent of a living is a tenant for life of his See also:

BENEFICE (Lat. beneficium, benefit)

benefice, and any waste, voluntary or per-missive, on his See also:

PART

part must be made good by his administrators to his successor in See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office. The principles on which such dilapidations are to be ascertained, and the application of the See also:

MONEY

money payable in respect thereof, depend partly on old ecclesiastical law and partly on acts of See also:

PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

parliament. Questions as to ecclesiastical dilapidations usually arise in respect of the See also:

RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

residence See also:

house and other buildings belonging to the living. Inclosures, hedges, ditches and the like are included in things " of which the beneficed See also:

PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person hath the See also:

BURDEN, or BURTHEN

burden and See also:

charge of reparation." In a leading See also:

case (See also:

Ross v. Adcock, 1868, L.R. 3 C.P. 657) it was said that the See also:

court was acquainted with no precedent or decision extending the liability of the executors of a deceased incumbent to any See also:

SPECIES

species of waste beyond dilapidation of the house, See also:

CHANCEL (through O. Fr. from Lat. plur. cancelli, dim. of cancer, grating, lattice, probably connected with an Indo-European root Kar-, to bend; cf. circus, curve, &c.)

chancel or other buildings or fences of the benefice. And it has been held that the See also:

mere mismanagement or miscultivation of the ecclesiastical lands will not give rise to an See also:

ACTION

action for dilapidations. To See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place the law See also:

RELATING

relating to dilapidations on a more satisfactory footing, the Ecclesiastical Dilapidations See also:

ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

Act 1871 was passed. The buildings to which the act applies are defined to be such houses of residence, chancels, walls, fences and other buildings and things as the incumbent of the benefice is by law and See also:

CUSTOM (from O. Fr. costume, costume or coustume; Low Lat. costuma, a shortened form of consuetudo)

custom See also:

BOUND, or BOUNDARY (from O. Fr. bonde, Med. Lat. bodena or butina, a frontier line)

bound to maintain in repair.

In each See also:

DIOCESE (formed on Fr. diocese, in place of the Eng. form diocess—current until the 19th century—from Lat. dioecesis, med. Lat. variant diocesis, from Gr. Swucio•tc, " house-keeping," " administration," &miceas, " to keep house," " to govern ")

diocese a surveyor is appointed by the archdeacons and rural deans subject to the approval of the See also:

bishop; and such surveyor shall by the direction of the bishop examine the buildings on the following occasions—viz. (1) when the benefice is sequestrated; (2) when it is vacant; (3) at the See also:

REQUEST, LETTERS OF

request of the incumbent or on complaint by the See also:

ARCHDEACON (Lat. archidiaconus, Gr. &oxt3tauovor)

archdeacon, rural See also:

dean or See also:

PATRON

patron. The surveyor specifies the See also:

WORKS

works required, and gives an estimate of their probable cost. In the case of a vacant benefice, the new incumbent and the old incumbent or his representatives may See also:

lodge objections to the surveyor's See also:

REPORT (O.Fr. report or raport, modern rapport, from O.Fr. reporter, mod. rap porter, Lat. reportare, to bring back, in poetical use only, of bringing back an account, news, &c.)

report on any grounds of fact or law, and the bishop, after See also:

CONSIDERATION (from Lat. considerare, to look at closely, examine, generally taken to be from con-, and the base seen in sidus, sideris, a star, the word being supposed to be originally an astrological or astronomical term)

consideration, may make an See also:

order for the See also:

REPAIRS (from Lat. reparare, to make ready again)

repairs and their cost, for which the See also:

LATE

late incumbent or his representatives are liable. The sum so stated becomes a See also:

DEBT (Lat. debitum, a thing owed)

debt due from the late incumbent or his representatives to the new incumbent, who shall pay over the money when recovered to the See also:

GOVERNORS

governors of See also:

Queen See also:

Anne's See also:

BOUNTY (through O. Fr. bontet, from Lat. bonitas, goodness)

Bounty. The governors pay for the works on See also:

EXECUTION (from Lat. ex-sequor, exsecutus, follow or carry out)

execution on See also:

RECEIPT (M.E. receite, derived through Fr. from Lat. recepta, participle of recipere, to receive)

receipt of a certificate from the surveyor; and the surveyor, when the works have been completed to his See also:

SATISFACTION (Lat. salisfacerc, to satisfy)

satisfaction, gives a certificate to that effect, the effect of which, so far as regards the incumbent, is to protect him from liability for dilapidations for the next five years. Unnecessary buildings belonging to a residence house may, by the authority of the bishop and with the consent of the patron, be removed. An amending See also:

STATUTE

statute of 1872 (Ecclesiastical Dilapidations Act (1871) See also:

AMENDMENT (through the O. Fr. amender, to correct, from Lat. mendum, a fault)

Amendment) relates chiefly to advances by the governors of Queen Anne's Bounty for the purposes of the act.

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