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INNS OF COURT.

Not necessarily vills, 11, 12.
Lincoln's Inn liable to be rated.
Gray's Inn not.

INSPECTION.

All inhabitants of a parish may inspect a rate, 134.
So also a rated inhabitant accounts of guardians, 217.

Mandamus lies to compel, though time for appeal has passed, 217.

INTEREST.

Money out, not rateable, 68

67, 68.

IRISHMEN.

May gain settlement, 275.

if rendered so, local act will not include bank annuities,

Not having gained one, and being chargeable, to be sent to Ireland, 726, 727.
See REMOVAL (7.)

IRON MINES.

Are not rateable, 71, 845.

IRREMOVABLE.

Persons being, and gaining a settlement, are not convertible expressions, 312,
632, 635.

Old dictum to that effect, 635.

J.

JERSEY.

Persons born in, and having acquired no settlement here, being chargeable may
be removed to, 726, 727. See REMOVAL (7.)

JOINT TENANCY.

In a tenement of more than annual value of 101. to each tenant, is sufficient for a
settlement, 550.

JURISDICTION.

In matter of the court will intend nothing, 23.

May be examined into by sessions, 740.

Must appear on all orders made by justices on appointment of overseers, 23.
In allowance of parish indentures, 485.

certificates, 673.

In orders of removal, 737.

JUSTICES.

Doing judicial act, must confer together, though they may execute apart, 25,

481.

Where a parish is in two counties, a justice can act only within the part in his
own county, 133.

Being churchwardens of removing parish, cannot sign order of removal, 737.
One must be of the quorum, though the order need not state it, 740.

In local jurisdiction, may act, though not of the quorum, 741.

May act generally though rated, 16 Geo. II. c. 18, 143, 144.

But cannot act on appeal, 17 Geo. II. c. 38, s. 5, 144.
When they may, 144.

K.

KIN.

Residence by sole next of, on estate, gives him settlement, 599, 600. See
ESTATE (4.)

KING.

Rateability of property of. See CROWN.

L.

LAND.

Includes every thing under it and over it, 62.

LANDLORD.

Not liable to rate generally, 49.

Of houses between 61. and 201. rent, may be rated, 49, 50.

LAND-TAX.

Collector of, holds an office within 3 & 4 W. & M. c. 11, s. 6, 644.

Being charged with and paying, gives a settlement, 656.

Is included in" parochial rates," in 6 Geo. IV. 656, 657.

LAST NIGHT.

Of sleeping, determines settlement, where residence is same year for forty days in
different parishes, 379, 416.

LEAD MINES.

Are not rateable, 71.

But the lessee of lot and cope is, 72. See RATE, v. (7.)

LEAP YEAR.

There are 366 days in, 347.

The intercalary day and day preceding, are one day, 348.
Service in, for 365 days, not a service for a year, 347.

LEGITIMACY. See BIRTH.

LESSEE.

Is rateable if it produces profit to himself or lessor, 49.
But not of king's stables for use of regiment, 55.

Of tithes by parol cannot be rated, 68, 69.

If by deed, semble, he is liable, 69.

Of herbage of towing path, not rateable, 102.

LICENCE.

To use fixed machinery, is no tenement, 540, 851, 852.

LIGHTHOUSE.

Not rateable according to its tolls, where neither tolls or benefit to ships is received
within the parish, 108.

LIMEWORKS.

Not being mines are rateable as land, 80, 845, 846.

LOCAL ACT.

Settlements under, repealed, 275.

LOT AND COPE.

Lessee of, is rateable, 72. See RATE (7.)

LUNATIC ASYLUMS.

No bastard born of any insane person in any county, shall gain a settlement
thereby, 283.

Restriction since 9 Geo. IV. confined to county, before it was general, ib.

Objects of are not rateable, 53.

Land used for, not to be rated at its improved value, 54.

LYING-IN-HOSPITAL. See HOSPITAL.

M

MAIDEN SETTLEMENT.

Not extinguished by marriage, 314.

Revives on the death, 314, or desertion of, ib., her husband. See REMOVAL (2.)
Wife may be removed with, and by the consent of, her husband, ib., unless he is
an Irishman, &c., 249, 314.

Proof of, sufficient, on removal of wife or widow, 315.

MAINTENANCE. See RELIEF.

Sessions may enter appeal against order abandoned to compel payment of, 767.
Incurred between removal and appeal to be repaid, upon order being quashed, 791.
Mandamus lies to compel it, ib.

MAN, ISLE OF.

Persons born in, having no settlement here, and being chargeable, to be sent to,
726. See REMOVAL (7.)

MANDAMUS.

Lies to appoint overseers, 25.

To make a rate, 44.

But not to equalize it, ib.

Lies to compel sessions to award maintenance, 191.

MANOR.

Rents and casual profits of, are not rateable, 70.

MARKET.

Lessee of tolls of, not incident to the soil, are not rateable, 103.

Stallage and pickage are, 104.

Tolls are a tenement within 13 & 14 Car. II., 528.

MARGIN.

County in margin considereds as referred to by subsequent words "county afore.
said," 740.

MARRIAGE.

Presumption of, from cohabitation, may be disproved by the parties, 806, 807.
Settlement by-General Rule.

Woman marrying follows husband's known settlement, 312; though she
never lived there, ib.; and though the marriage was fraudulently obtained,

315.

Wife can gain no settlement by her own act during coverture, 276, 312.
But she may be irremovable, as where she lives on husband's estate, he having
deserted her, 312.

Her maiden settlement may revive, 313.

As on the death of her husband, who has no known settlement, 314.

Or on his deserting her, ib.

Or where husband living with wife but has no settlement, ib.

If husband is living with wife, and is an Irishman, &c., she cannot be moved
to her maiden settlement, 249, 314.

Secus if he is absent, 314.

Acquired by second, is not communicated to children by former marriage, 292.
Evidence of.

May be proved by person present, 808.

by reputation, ib, 809.

by cohabitation, ib., 808.

by register and identity, ib.

Particular forms first required by 26 Geo. II. s. 33, 809.

That statute repealed, ib.

Of minors by banns, or licence, 809, 810, 811.

Knowingly marrying without due publication of banns, void, 810.

So also if person no authority to grant licence, ib.

Or person solemnizing not in holy orders, ib.

If minor, by licence or without consent, is valid, ib.

MARRIAGE-continued.

Evidence of continued.

In foreign countries according to law of the country is good, 811.

So also if according to law of England in the house or chapel of the British
Ambassador, 811, n.

Performed abroad by a person officiating as priest, presumed to be valid, 812.
Semble of an English soldier according to English rites, ib.

In certain chapels legalized, ib.

Banns published in an assumed but not true name, are valid, 815, 816, 817.
If published bona fide in the name found in baptismal register, but by which
person never known, marriage void, 817.

Secus by 3 Geo. IV. c. 75, s. 19, 814.

MARRIED WOMEN.

Pregnant with bastard, and husband abroad, chargeable, 716, 717, 718.
MARSHES.

Drained, and parish unknown, rateable to adjoining parish, 10, 109.

MASTER.

Who may be, in hiring and service, 326, &c. See HIRING (1.)
to an apprentice, 458. See APPRENTICE (3.)

MASTER OF WORKHOUSE.

Holds no office within 3 & 4 W. & M. c. 11, s. 6, 645, 646.

Not to punish any adult corporally, or confine him beyond twenty-four hours,

197.

Not to chain any sane person, ib.

MEDICAL AID. See CASUAL POOR.

MEETING HOUSE.

Owner or trustees of, rateable, if profit made, 57.

MILLS.

See 851, 852.

MONEY AT INTEREST.

Not generally rateable, 68.

May be rateable by local act, 67, 68.

Does not then include bank annuities, ib.

MORTGAGES.

When a mortgager or mortgagee gain settlement. See ESTATE IN MORTGAGE.
When a purchaser, part of the money remaining in mortgage.

PURCHASE (2.)

MOTHER.

See ESTATES BY

When her settlement is communicated to a child. See PARENTAGE.

N.

NAVIGATION.

Undertakers of, not having any interest in the soil, are not rateable, though they

enjoy a profit, 96, 97, 98, 99.

As to Canals. See RATE (11.)

NEXT OF KIN.

Widow, with a child, is not properly, 598, 599.

Sole, may gain settlement by residence on intestate's estate without administra-
tion, 597, 598, 599.

NON-ACCESS.

Cannot be proved by husband or wife, 803, 804.

NOTICE.

Effect of power to dissolve hiring on, 352. See HIRING AND SERVICE (6.)

NOTICE OF APPEAL.

Must be given and the particular grounds be specified in appeal against any poor
rate, 142.

So if against any account of churchwardens or overseers, ib.

Must be in writing and signed by person giving the same or the attorney on his
behalf, ib.

Must be delivered or left with two of the overseers, ib.

Also to persons interested, 142.

No other grounds than those stated in, can be inquired into, ib.

But the omission may be waived in open court, ib.

Against order of removal, 768. See REMOVAL (5.)

NURSE CHILDREN. See NURSE.

Form of order of maintenance of. See APPENDIX.

0.

OBLATIONS.

Are rateable, 70.

OCCUPATION.

Necessary under 59 Geo. III. and 6 Geo. IV., 574. See TENEMENT (15.)
Beneficial, essential to be rateable. See RATE (4.)

Renders persons liable, wherever residing, 49.

OFFICE, SETTLEMENT BY.

1. Statutes, 633.

Execution of an annual office for a year gains a settlement, 636.

2. Nature of Office and Appointment.

A certificate person must be legally placed therein, 636.

A deputy officer gains no settlement, 637.

But a principal, serving by deputy, does under 9 & 10 W. & M.,
Secus under 3 & 4 W. & M., ib.

OFFICES WITHIN THE ACTS.

Parish clerk, 637, 853.

It need not be a parish office, 645.

Parish church being a freehold, 637, 645.

Sexton of a church-yard in two parishes, 640.

Warden of a borough in several parishes, 640, 641.
Constable of a city, embracing several parishes, ib.

A town crier, ib.

Tithing-man, 643, for part of a parish, 641.
Bailiff or aletaster for a borough, 643.

Hogringer for the parish, ib.

An assistant overseer, 644.

Collector of land tax, ib.

Collector of duties on births and burials, ib. 645.

OFFICES NOT WITHIN THE ACTS.

A curate, 645.

A schoolmaster, ib.

Master or governor of a workhouse, 639, 645, 646.

ib.

An officer appointed from court leet to court leet, the interval not being a year,
638, 649.

If sessions find the office to be a public annual one, K. B. are bound by it,
646.

If part of the duties are performed in the parish in which officer resides it is suffi-
cient, 640, 641, 642.

A certificate man chosen borsholder must be sworn in, 643. See 647, 648.
But under 3 & 4 W. & M. execution of an office de facto is sufficient, 647, 648.
As of a tithing-man appointed but never sworn in, ib.

A defeasible office is sufficient, 644. See 645.

If the appointment is in writing and with a salary, it must be stamped, 644.

3. Of the Time of Serving.

The office must be served for a whole year, 649.

Service for part of a year, ib., or half a year at a time, confers no settlement,

649.

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