THE

LAW AND PRACTICE

OF

ORDERS OF AFFILIATION.

THE

LAW AND PRACTICE

OF

ORDERS OF AFFILIATION,

AND

Proceedings in Bastardy.

WITH THE

STATUTES AND FORMS.

BY

THOMAS WILLIAM SAUNDERS, Esq.,

(Of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law),

LONDON:

PRINTED BY. HORACE COX, 10, WELLINGTON-STREET, strand.

PREFACE TO THE SEVENTH EDITION.

THE author, in preparing the present edition, having felt that the introduction in the midst of the text of the various forms applicable to the subject (which are of more interest and importance to the clerk of the justices by whom they are to be framed than to the practitioner or his client), operates to a considerable extent as an impediment in the convenient use of the work, he has thought it desirable that these forms should be collected together and placed by themselves at the end of the treatise in the order in which they issued from the Local Government Board by whom they were prepared. This idea he has carried out; and it is hoped that the text, being thus unincumbered by somewhat foreign matter, will be rendered more lucid in itself, and more available for general use.

Since the publication of the last edition, several cases of considerable interest bearing upon the subject have been under the consideration of the Courts. These will be found referred to in their appropriate places.

T. W. S.

February, 1878.