An Examination Of The Law Of Church Rates - Softcover

Charles James Watkin Williams

Softcover

ISBN 10: 037136440X ISBN 13: 9780371364406

Publisher: HardPress, 2019

Synopsis

An Examination Of The Law Of Church Rates by Charles James Watkin Williams. This volume collects a series of letters that examine the legal question of church rates in mid-19th-century Britain, challenging the notion that parishioners are universally obliged to repair parish churches. Williams argues that, under the common law, no parish is permanently bound to fund church repairs, and that church-rates depend on majority consent rather than an inherent legal duty. Drawing on the Braintree decisions, he contends that remedies to enforce such duties are often unavailable, urging legislative reform rather than coercive rates. The work situates its argument within debates about toleration, the rights of dissenters, and the structure of church finance, and it includes prefaces, appendices, and responses to contemporaries. Originally issued as a second edition in 1854 by James Ridgway in London, the text presents a rigorous, principled critique of church rates and a call for constitutional clarity in ecclesiastical funding.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 037136440X
• ISBN 13: 9780371364406
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 40