Decisions of the Court of King's Bench, Upon the Laws Relating to the Poor: Originally Published by Edmund Bott. Now Revised, Corrected, and Considerably Enlarged; with Tables of the Cases; and a Complete Digest of the Principal Matters; the 3d Ed.; in which the Statutes; the Reported Decisions, from the Reign of Queen Elizabeth to Michaelmas Term the Thirty-third of George the Third; and Many Cases Never Before Published Upon this Subject, are Properly Arranged; and the Whole System of the Poor Laws Placed in a Clear and Perspicuous Point of View, Volume 1

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Page 665 - ... correction, there to be kept to hard labour for any time not exceeding one calendar month.
Page 74 - ... for setting to work all such persons, married or unmarried, having no means to maintain them , and use no ordinary and daily trade of life to get their living by...
Page 343 - ... ware and stuff to set the poor on work: and also competent sums of money for and towards the necessary relief of the lame impotent old blind and such other among them being poor and not able to work and also for the putting out of such children to be apprentices...
Page 332 - Correction, there to be kept to hard labour for any time not exceeding three calendar months...
Page 332 - ... to take and seize so much of the goods and chattels, and receive so much of the annual rents and profits of the lands and...
Page 335 - June, one thousand, seven hundred and thirty seven, every person who shall, for hire, gain or reward, act, represent or perform, or cause to be acted, represented or performed any interlude, tragedy, comedy, opera, play, farce or other entertainment of the stage...
Page 333 - ... or any of them, be under the age of fourteen years, and have any father or mother living, then to the place of the abode of fuch father or mother, there to be delivered to fome...
Page 663 - Peace for the county or place into which such person shall so escape or go, or in which he shall reside or be, or be supposed or suspected to be, upon proof alone...
Page 470 - The Indenture, Covenant, Article, or Contract, must bear Date the Day it is executed ; and what Money or other Thing is given or contracted for with the Clerk or Apprentice, must be inserted in Words at length ; and the Duty paid to the...
Page 385 - Place, or shall declare herself to be with Child, and that such Child is likely to be born a Bastard, and to be chargeable to any Parish...

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