A Summary of the Law Relative to Appeals Against Orders of Removal, Against Rates, and Against Orders of Filiation: Together with the Practice of the Court of Quarter Sessions, in Appeals, Volume 2R. Pheney and J. Richards, 1832 - Poor laws |
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act of parliament afterwards annual value apprentice apprenticeship bastard become chargeable born Bott bound apprentice Burn Burr Cald canal certificate certificate-man certiorari child churchwardens confirmed the order consent contract cottage court HELD defendant East evidence forty days gained a settlement hiring and service holden indenture inhabitant justices land landlord lived magistrates mandamus marriage married Martinmas master ment merely Michaelmas Michaelmas day months mother objected occupied order of bastardy order of removal order of sessions overseers paid parish parish of St parish officers party pauper gained pauper hired pauper rented pauper served pauper was bound pauper was hired pauper's father pauper's husband person place of settlement plaintiff poor poor's rate proved purchase quashed the order rateable received refused removed by order resided Salk servant Sess statute sufficient tenant tenement thereby gained tolls week whilst widow wife woman yearly hiring
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Page 354 - KB held, that the company were liable to be rated for their lands, &c. only at the same value as other adjacent lands, and not according to the improved value derived from the land being used for the purposes of the canal.
Page 416 - And whereas doubts have arisen with respect to the intentions of the legislature concerning the occupation of such house, building, or land by the person hiring the same, and concerning the amount of the rent to be paid and the person paying the same...
Page 396 - ... have been proved by the respondents, the sessions, thinking that the respondents were bound to establish their case to the satisfaction of a majority of the court, quashed the order, instead of adjourning the appeal : upon an application for a mandamus, the court, without deciding whether the sessions had done rightly in not adjourning, HELD that as they had actually decided the case, this court could not interfere.
Page 391 - The Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas having conferred with his brethren, stated that they were unanimously of opinion, " That the presumption of legitimacy arising from the birth of a child during wedlock, the husband and wife not being proved to be impotent, and having opportunities of access to each other, during the period in which a child could be begotten and born in the course of nature, may be rebutted by circumstances inducing a contrary presumption ;
Page 416 - Bhall be actually occupied under such yearly hiring in the same parish or township, by the person hiring the same, for the term of one whole year at the least, and unless the rent for the same, to the amount of ten pounds at the least, shall be paid by the person hiring the same.
Page 416 - ... by an Act passed in the seventh year of the reign of his late Majesty George the Fourth, intituled An Act to authorize the Disposal of unnecessary Prisons in England.
Page 353 - A canal act directed that the company should be rated for all lands and buildings in the same proportion as other lands and buildings lying near the same, and as the same would be rateable if they were the property of individuals in their natural capacity...
Page 368 - Haworth having refused to pay the sum of 50/., their proportion of the rate, an application was made to the court of king's bench for a mandamus to compel them to do so.
Page 416 - ... unless such tenement shall consist of a separate and distinct dwelling-house or building, or of land, or of both, bond fide rented by such person, in such parish or township, at and for the sum of 10/. a year, at the least...
Page 416 - England, by reason of his or her dwelling for forty days in any tenement rented by such person, unless such tenement shall consist of a house or...