BURSARIA

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BURSARIAAuthored
The Law Mind • 782 words
Definition
The treasury, counting house, or financial office of a collegiate or conventual (monastic) body — the institutional equivalent of a royal or governmental exchequer, but operating within a college or religious house. The bursaria is both the physical place where funds are received, disbursed, and accounted for, and the administrative function itself, presided over by a bursar. In a secondary but recognized sense, the term also refers collectively to stipendiary scholars — that is, students supported by a bursary, living on the common fund or joint stock of the college rather than at their own expense. ---
Common Language
Modern common usage (Wiktionary): Not a standard entry in modern general English dictionaries. The related term "bursary" is current, denoting a financial grant or scholarship awarded to a student. Historical common usage (Webster's 1913): Not separately defined; Webster's treats "bursar" (the treasurer of a college or monastery) but does not carry a standalone entry for bursaria. The legal and institutional term bursaria is the Latin form designating the office or place of treasury functions, while common English usage has migrated to "bursary" for the scholarship itself. A researcher encountering bursaria in historical documents should not assume it refers only to a scholarship — the primary legal sense is the treasury office or function, not the grant it administers. ---
Why It Matters in Research
Bursaria surfaces almost exclusively in historical legal and ecclesiastical sources dealing with collegiate foundations, monastic houses, or university governance. Researchers working with charters, statutes of foundation, visitation records, or internal regulations of Oxford and Cambridge colleges or English religious houses will encounter the term as a description of financial administration and institutional structure, not merely scholarship funding. Two meanings require care. When bursaria appears in a document organizing the governance of a college or monastery, it designates the financial office. When it appears in a list of persons or in scholarship records, it may denote the body of stipendiary scholars themselves. Context is determinative. The term is almost entirely absent from American legal sources. It is a term of English ecclesiastical and academic institutional law, relevant to American research only where colonial college charters or religious corporations borrowed English models directly. Researchers should note that Rapalje & Lawrence's entry as retrieved in the source material does not contain a definition of bursaria — the text supplied is plainly a fragment from a burial entry (likely "Burial" or a neighboring term), indicating a pagination or extraction error in that source. Rapalje & Lawrence should not be relied upon for this term without independent verification of the relevant page. ---
Historical Dictionary Support
Black's Law Dictionary (1st and 2nd editions) are in close agreement, with the 2nd edition offering a marginally cleaner text. Both definitions carry the dual meaning — treasury office and stipendiary scholars — without prioritizing one over the other. Neither edition provides case authority or statutory context, reflecting the term's role as a term of institutional Latin usage rather than litigated doctrine. The historical dictionaries do not address the governance implications of the bursaria within the broader structure of collegiate or conventual administration — its relationship to the office of bursar, the accountability mechanisms associated with it, or its role in visitation proceedings. Researchers needing that institutional depth will need to consult histories of English university or monastic administration directly. The Rapalje & Lawrence source text, as noted above, does not yield a usable definition for this term and should be treated as unreliable for this entry. ---
Jurisdictional Note
Bursaria as a legal term is essentially confined to English ecclesiastical and academic institutional law. It has no meaningful independent presence in American, Scottish, or continental legal systems, though analogous treasury functions in those systems may carry similar Latin-derived labels in their own founding documents. ---
Related Terms
Bursar — the officer who administers the bursaria; the treasurer of a collegiate or conventual body. Bursary — the modern English derivative; a scholarship or financial grant; also the office itself in Scottish university usage. Exchequer — the governmental analogue; the royal treasury and accounting office. Burse — the common fund or joint stock from which stipendiary scholars are maintained. Almoner — related officer in religious and collegiate institutions administering charitable distributions. Conventual — relating to a convent or monastery; the institutional context in which bursaria most frequently appears. Collegiate bodies — the broader category of institutions whose internal governance law gives bursaria operative meaning. Visitatorial jurisdiction — the supervisory authority over collegiate and conventual bodieswithin which financial accountability of the bursaria could be examined.
BURSARIAmain
Black's Law Dictionary • 1891
The exchequer of collegiate or conventual bodies; or the place of receiv- ing, paying, and accounting by the bursars. Also stipendiary scholars, who live upon the C burse, fund, or joint-stock of the college.
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Rapalje & Lawrence • 1888
(159) parish where he dies, unless he was within certain ecclesiastical prohibitions (e. g. not having been baptized), and provided that the rites of the Church of England are observed. (Stat. 4 Geo. IV. c. 52, provides for the burial of suicides in churchyards without Christian rites.) But no person is entitled to be buried in the church itself without the consent of the incumbent, unless such a right exists by prescription, as belonging to a manor-house or other messuage. The right of burial may be enforced by mandamus or information (Phillim. Ecc. L. 839 et seq.), or by the ecclesiastical punishment of suspension. (Id. 857.) The common law rule, that every burial in a parochial churchyard must celebrated according to the rites Church of England, has been abolished in England by the Burial Laws Amendment Act, 1880 (43 and 44 Vict. c. 41), which provides that a deceased person may be buried within the churchyard or graveyard of a parish or ecclesiastical district or place, without the Church of England service for the burial of the dead, provided proper notice of the intended burial is given to the incumbent; the burial may take place either without any religious service, or with any Christian and orderly religious service. The act only extends to burial grounds in which the parishioners or inhabitants of the parish or ecclesiastical district have rights of burial, and it expressly enacts that it shall not authorize the burial of any person in any place where such person would have had no right of interment if the act had not passed; nor authorize the burial of any person in a burial ground vested in trustees, without the performance of any express condition on which, by the terms of the trust deed, the right of interment may have been granted. 2. Fees.-Fees on burial are due only by custom in each place, and not by the general law. 2 Steph. Com. 740. 3. Statutes concerning. The principal English statutes relating to burials are the Stat. 10 and 11 Vict. c. 65, regulating the making and management of cemeteries by companies incorporated for that purpose; Stat. 15 and 16 Vict. c. 85, making provision for closing burial grounds in the metropolis for the protection of the public health; Stat. 16 and 17 Vict. c. 134, extending those provisions to other cities and towns; and Stat. 20 and 21 Vict. c. 81, as to burial grounds for the paupers. 4. Burial boards. - The Stats. 15 and 16 Vict. c. 85, and 16 and 17 Vict. c. 134, (as amended by Stat. 18 and 19 Viet. c. 128,) also contain enactments for providing a new burial ground in any parish where the existing burial ground is insufficient or dangerous to health: in such case a burial board is appointed by the vestry, with power to purchase land for a burial ground, and to borrow money for that purpose, the expenses being charged on the poor rate. See also the Burial Act, 1871, and the acts mentioned in the schedule to that act; and 2343 of the Public Health Act, 1875, re-enacting the enactments set out in schedule 5, part 3. cemeteries, subject to the provisions of the Cemeteries Clauses Act, 1847, and the Public Health Act, 1875. See MORTUARY. 26. Grants of land for burial grounds. - Stats. 30 and 31 Vict. c. 133; 31 and 32 Vict. c. 47; and 36 and 37 Vict. c. 50, contain provisions for voluntary grants and sales of land for the purposes of burial grounds, including gifts of land by limited owners, such as tenants for life. (Phillim. Ecc. L. 853.) As to the registration of burials, see REGISTRATION. BURIAL, (rights of). 1 Barn. & Ad. 122. BURIAL GROUND, (in a statute). 103 Mass. 104. BURKING, or BURKISM.-Committing murder in order to sell the body for dissection. BURLAW' COURTS.-In Scotch law, courts consisting of neighbors selected by common consent to act as judges in determining disputes between neighbor and neighbor. BURN.-See ARSON. BURN, (in crimes act). 5 Cush. (Mass.) 427; 16 Mass. 105; 3 Ired. (N. C.) L. 570; 10 Rich. (S. C.) L. 23. (in indictment for arson). 17 Ga. 130. BURNED AND CONSUMED, (in an indictment for arson). 110 Mass. 403. BURNING, (a ship). 4 Dall. 417. (not synonymous with "setting fire to"). 5 Gratt. (Va.) 664. (what constitutes arson). 16 Johns. (N. Y.) 203; 5 Cush. (Mass.) 427; 32 Vt. 158; 1 Car. & M. 541; 9 Car. & P. 45. BURNING A HOUSE, (in a statute). 16 Mass. 105. -The bursery, or exchequer of collegiate and conventual bodies; or the place of receiving and paying, and accounting by the bursarii, or bursers, A. D. 1277. But the word bursarii did not only signify the bursars of a convent or college; but formerly stipendiary scholars were called by the name of bursarii, as they lived on the burse or fund, or public stock 5. Public Health Act. - The Public of the university. At Paris, and among the Health (Interments) Act, 1879, empowers local Cistertian monks, they were particularly termed authorities to acquire, construct and maintain by this name. Jacob.
BURSARIAmain
Black's Law Dictionary (2nd Ed.) • 1910
The exchequer of collegiate or conventual bodies; or the place of receiving, paying, and accounting by the bursars. Also stipendiary scholars, who live upon the burse, fund, or joint-stock of the college.

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