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...Honorable George S. Hale spoke yesterday afternoon in Divinity Chapel on "The Present Relations of the Law to Religious Organizations-Property Rights and Discipline...
...Hale first gave numerous examples of the respective powers of the ecclesiastic and civil courts in deciding upon the guilt of accused members of religious bodies. He said that civil authority had enacted special commandments in relation to the holding of property for the support of some divine creed and that in all cases where appeal was made to the civil court, the civil court never held the previous decisions of the ecclesiastical court to be valid, as these bodies had organized themselves, and whatever power they exercised came only from themselves and could have no legal force...
...Hale then gave definitions of different terms relating to religion. The parish, he said, has been defined as that territory which is committed to the charge of a curate who is entrusted with the care of souls. In early times in America the town and parish were often one and the same. The parish in the South and elsewhere is often a corporation which regulates church elections...
Lecture. Present Relations of the Law to Religious Organization-Property Rights and Discipline. Hon. George S. Hale. Divinity Chapel...
LECTURES ON THE LEGAL ASPECTS OF THE MINISTRY.A course of six lectures on the Legal Aspects of the Ministry will be given by Hon. George S. Hale, of Boston, in the Chapel of the Divinity School, on successive Tuesday afternoons at 4.30, beginning on February 27. The subjects are as follows...