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Living in Suspense Problems and Solutions with Suspension of the Right of Presentation1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Jonathan Redvers Harris
Jonathan Redvers Harris
Affiliation:
Vicar of Houghton Regis in the Diocese of St Albans
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To those familiar with the practice of suspension of the right of presentation this theme may be a sensitive one, arousing perhaps fierce passions. To those unfamiliar it may simply sound like a technical abstraction. I hope that the former, out of consideration for the latter, will allow me the indulgence of setting the scene for this subject by drawing upon the true circumstances of one benefice in a diocese in the southern Province.

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Ecclesiastical Law Journal , Volume 6 , Issue 30 , January 2002 , pp. 199 - 207
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Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 2002

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