Decisions of the Court of King's Bench, Upon the Laws Relating to the Poor, Volume 1

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Page 335 - ... 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 653 - ... correction, there to be kept to hard labour for any time not exceeding one calendar month.
Page 72 - ... 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 656 - Correction, there to be kept to hard labour for any time not exceeding three calendar months...
Page 25 - ... and such person shall scruple to take upon him any of the said offices in regard of the oaths or any other matter or thing required by the law to be taken or done in respect of such office, every such person shall and may execute such office...
Page 659 - Act of his late majesty King George the Third, for the better relief and employment of the poor within the hundreds of Tunstead and Happing in the county of Norfolk.
Page 524 - Where we have no doubt, we ought not to put the parties to the delay and expense of a farther argument, nor leave other persons who may be interested in the determination of a point of a general nature, unnecessarily under the anxiety of suspense.
Page 324 - ... 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 377 - 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...
Page 248 - ... of such stock as shall be in their hands or in the hands of any of the poor to work, and of all other things concerning their said office...

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