The Act for the Amendment of the Poor Laws

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Saunders and Benning, 1835 - Poor laws - 267 pages

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Page 146 - ... and abide the order of and pay such costs as shall be awarded by the justices at such general or quarter sessions...
Page 147 - ... done under or by virtue of this Act, or if it shall appear that such action or suit was brought before Twenty-one Days...
Page 129 - ... to the use of His Majesty, his heirs and successors, and the other moiety to the use of the person who shall inform or sue for the same...
Page 144 - Money by virtue of this Act, the Distress itself shall not be deemed unlawful, nor the Party making the same...
Page 216 - THE POOR LAW COMMISSIONERS, in pursuance of the authorities vested in Us by an Act passed in the fifth year of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled "An Act for the Amendment and better Administration of the Laws relating to the Poor in England and Wales...
Page 147 - Plaintiff in such Action or Suit shall become Nonsuit, or suffer a Discontinuance of such Action, or if, upon any Demurrer in such Action, Judgment shall be given for the Defendant therein, then...
Page 136 - Justices shall and they are hereby required to commit such Offender to the Common Gaol or House of Correction for the County...
Page 142 - Justice, on such day or days as shall be appointed for the return of such warrant of distress, such day or days not being more than seven days from the time of taking any such security, and...
Page 216 - Fourth, or of any former act concerning bankrupts, or of an act passed in the first and second years of the reign of his Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled an act to establish a court of bankruptcy...
Page 30 - ... of all such persons as they may think fit to call before them upon any question or matter connected with or relating to the administration of the laws for the relief of the poor, and...

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