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 2Whieldon and Butterworth, 1793 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 59 - ... shall judicially declare the same to be so ; and such judicial declaration shall be deemed and taken to be as good and effectual, to all intents and purposes, as if the father, guardian or guardians, or mother of the person so petitioning, had consented to such marriage.
Page 121 - ... the mortgagee, notwithstanding the form, has but a chattel and the mortgage is only a security. It is an affront to common sense to say the mortgagor is not the real owner.
Page 60 - ... presence, and by his direction ; and such entries shall be made as aforesaid, on or near such lines in successive order, where the paper is not damaged or decayed, by accident or length of time, until a new book shall be thought proper or necessary to be provided for the same purposes, and then the directions...
Page 690 - ... refufal of payment, be levied by diftrefs and fale of the goods and chattels of the churchwardens and overfeers of the poor...
Page 346 - This second hiring, therefore, must be considered as a general hiring, which the law construes to be a hiring for a year. As to this expression referring to the time for which the pauper was originally hired, it is too refined ; it only referred to the nature of the service in which he was before engaged.
Page 441 - ... and if he had continued to serve for half a year without entering into any new contract, he would have been entitled to a compensation for such...
Page 122 - Marines, may fet up and exercife fuch Trades as they are apt and able for, in any Town or Place within this Kingdom...
Page 367 - The master (whilst he was working under the agreement,) found him looms, loom-room, and materials; he never employed the pauper in any work but weaving; the condition upon which he taught the pauper to weave was one half of his earnings.
Page 716 - But that propofition hailens to a conclufion too foon ; for by that ftatute they are not in all events to maintain their grand-children, &c. but only when they are of fufficient ability. Now the juftices are the proper judges of that ability ; and the grandfathers, &c.
Page 152 - ... it ; but the warren was to be kept in the same state as it was when it was let, otherwise the contract between the landlord and the tenant would be destroyed. In that respect, then, the pauper had an interest in the land : besides he took a house with the warren.