CHAPEL

A place of worship; a le er or inferior church, sometimes a part of or subordinate to another church. Webster. Rex v. Nixon, 7 Car. & P. 442. -Ohapel of ease. In English ecclesiastical Jaw..A chapel founded in general at some ~ riod later than the parochial church itself, and designed for the accommodation of such of the parishioners as, in course of time, had begun to fix their residence at some distance from its site j and so termed because built in aid of the origmaJ church. 3 Steph. Comm. 151.-Private ehapeL Chapels owned b7 private persons, and used by themselves and their families, are ·called "private," as opposed to. chapels of ease, which are built for the accommodation of particular districts within a parish, in ease of the •,original parish church. 2 Steph. Comm. 746.-!. P:ro11riet " elaax,ela. Iii.Blnglish. Jaw. [s. 196]