In English law. Be that has full possession of a parochial church. A rector (or parson) has, for the most part, the whole right to all the ecclesiastical dues in hls parish; while a vicar has an appropri-ator over hlm, entitled to the best part of the profits, to whom the vicar is, in effect, per-petual curate, with a standing salary. 1 Bl. Comm. 384, 388. See Bird v. Bt Mark's Church, 62 Iowa, 567, 17 N. W. 747
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
