Quarrel

Methodist, Slaveholding, Non-Slaveholding, Quarrel, Schism, Secession

From the book The Clergyman’s Hand-book of Law, about Methodist, Slaveholding, Non-Slaveholding, Quarrel, Schism, Secession (1): The division of the Methodist church into distinct organizations of slaveholding and non-slaveholding States, was not a secession and neither division lost its interest in the common property. A quarrel in a congregation growing out of an illegal election followed by the majority excluding the minority from the church, is not a schism, and is no ground for a division of the church property (Nelson v. Benson, 69 Ill., 27; Brown v. Porter, 10 Mass., 93). The secession of a whole congregation does not carry with it the church property; and those who are left and adhere to the mother church retain control of the property. When the seceders from one church join another, they forfeit all claim to any interest held by the former and lose identity with it (Harper v. Straws, 53 Ky., 48; Hale v. Everett, 53 N. H., 9; Wiswell v. First, 14 Ohio St., 31; Reorganized v. Church, 60 Fed., 937; 32 L. R. A., 838; Fernstler v. Seibert, 114 Pa., 196; 6 At., 165).

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Notes and References

1. Charles M. Scanlan, The Clergyman’s Hand-book of Law. The Law of Church and Grave (1909), Benziger Brothers, New York, Cincinnati, Chicago

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