much which it was found impossible to condense without rendering it obscure and in cases where the directions of the statutes require to be accurately observed, it has been thought best to give the very words of the enactments. In other cases, and especially in the different Church Building Acts, where much has been from time to time re-enacted without apparent reason, and where much which is not actually repealed, is nevertheless practically useless, such a course would only have perplexed: and it has been thought sufficient in such cases to give the substance only of what is now in force. The author has also to express his thanks to the several clergymen who have furnished him with many useful suggestions and much practical information; and for the ready manner in which such information has invariably been given. It is hoped, that in consequence of such communications nothing which can safely be affirmed, and which can be of legal interest or importance to their profession, will be found omitted in the following work. 6. Houses of Residence upon Glebe Lands, and building new 7. Rights as between successive Tenants for Life-Dilapidations. 276 Section 1. Discharge of Lands from Payment of Tithes by Nonpayment 2. Discharge, &c. by having formerly been Parcel of the Posses- sions of a Privileged Örder, or as having been or being now the Property of Ecclesiastical Corporations or of the Crown. 8. Merger and Extinguishment of Tithe and Tithe Rent-Charge. 335 9. Rates and Assessments to which Tithe and Tithe Rent-Charge |