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MANSE (Med. See also:Lat. manse, manses or mansum, from manere, to dwell, remain)  , originally a dwelling-See also:house together with a portion of See also:land sufficient for the support of a See also:family . It is defined by Du Cange (Glossarium, s.v . Manus) as . . . certam agri portionem quae coleretur et in qua coloni aedes esset . The See also:term was particularly applied, in ecclesiastical See also:law, to the house and See also:glebe to which every See also:church was entitled by See also:common right, the See also:rule of See also:canon law being sancitum est ut unicuique ecclesiae unus mansus integer absque ullo servitio tribuatur (Phillirmore, See also:Eccles . Law, 1895, ii . 1125) . The word is now chiefly used for the See also:residence of a See also:minister of the Established Church of See also:Scotland; to this every minister of a rural See also:parish is entitled, and the landed proprietors must build and keep it up . " See also:Manse " is also loosely used for the residence of a minister of various See also:Free Church denominations (see GLEBE) .

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