AND SHAW'S PARISH LAW. Fourth Edition. BY JAMES PATERSON, Eso. BARRISTER-AT-LAW. London: SHAW AND SONS, FETTER LANE, Law Printers and Publishers. ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FOURTH EDITION. THIS Fourth Edition of Mr. Archbold's Parish Officer has been carefully adapted by the Editor to the present state of the law, all the numerous changes during the last six years in the statutes, and decisions, being incorporated in their proper places. Many additions have been made, and some parts have been entirely rewritten. Among the additions is an introductory chapter on the Parish and those general features of parochial affairs which do not fall properly under the particular heads which follow. The chapters on Baths and Washhouses, Clergymen, Churchwardens, Highway Surveyors, Metropolitan Vestries, are either entirely new or greatly enlarged. Particular attention has been given to the amplification of the titles "Churchwardens," "Clergymen," so as to give those subjects the same prominent place in this work which they hold in the parochial system. No pains has been spared to render the work accurate and worthy of the favour it has hitherto received. JAMES PATERSON. Goldsmith's Building, Temple, January, 1864. ADVERTISEMENT TO THE THIRD EDITION. I HAVE taken great pains in editing this Edition. I have also added to it very considerably, particularly under the head of "Clergymen of the Parish." It was intimated to me, from some clergymen, that it was desirable I should, under this head, state shortly the law relating to Advowsons and Tithes,subjects in which they are, of course, much interested. I have done so: I have stated the whole law respecting Advowsons, including presentation, institution, induction, &c., and the mode of aliening an Advowson when vested in trustees under the recent statute 19 & 20 Vict. c. 50; I have treated of Tithes, to whom payable, exemptions, what estates may be had in them, how aliened, how commuted, how set out, how sued for and recovered, &c. I have been obliged, from the nature of the work itself, to give merely a summary of the law upon both these subjects; to treat of them at large would of course occupy infinitely more space than I could assign to them. Under other heads, I have described the duties of the different officers of a parish, as enumerated |