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a case the purpose of the incorporation is to perpetuate the succession of the ministerial position throngh the successors of the original minister.
The law states that towns, parishes and like legally defined districts, shall have the right to elect their public teachers. This practically excludes the church, for it only has a legal character when connected with some legally constituted society. The church and the parish often vote on different sides, and in all such cases the power is in the hands of the parish as a legal body.
In cases where the civil courts decide that a clergyman is not guilty of some offence charged by his people, the ecclesiastical court is in no way bound to accept this decision but may turn the accused out, if they consider him guilty. But the civil court insists that in all trials before ecclesiastical bodies the accused shall receive all the rights which he is allowed before a civil court.
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