{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ecclesiastical-buildings-and-glebes-scotland-act-1868/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ecclesiastical-buildings-and-glebes-scotland-act-1868/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/31-32/96",
  "legislation_title": "Ecclesiastical Buildings and Glebes (Scotland) Act 1868",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ecclesiastical-buildings-and-glebes-scotland-act-1868",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Interpretation of terms.",
  "text": "Where not inconsistent with the context, the following expressions shall in this Act have the meanings herein-after assigned to them:\nThe expression “church” shall include all necessary fencing of the site whereon the church is built, in so far as the heritors are now by law bound to provide the same:\nThe expression “manse” shall include all necessary and usual offices, garden, and garden walls which the heritors are now by law bound to provide:\nThe expression “parish” shall include united parishes:\nThe expression “glebe” shall include grass glebe or ministers grass:\nThe expression “lands and heritages” shall have the meaning assigned to it in the Lands Valuation (Scotland) Act 1854:\nThe expression “the Lord Ordinary” shall mean the Lord Ordinary in Teind Causes in the Court of Session:\nThe expression “sheriff” shall include sheriff substitute:\nThe expression “heritor” shall mean any proprietor of lands and heritages at present liable in the assessments which may be imposed according to the real or valued rents thereof, as the case may be, for the purposes set forth in the third section hereof:\nThe expression “valued rent” shall in the county and lordship of Zetland mean and include “number of merks land.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1854 c. 91."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/31-32/96/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:57:29.877584+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}