 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Richard Vaughan Barnewall, John Leycester Adolphus - Law reports, digests, etc - 1832 - 1068 pages
...The preamble recites, "that by reason of some defects in the law, poor people are not restramedt/ro7H going from one parish to another, and therefore do...those parishes where there is the best stock, the largest commons or wastes to build cottages, and the most woods for them to burn and destroy, and when... | |
 | Law - 1834 - 614 pages
...existing in the preamble to the Act 13 & 14 Car. 2, c. 12, the origin of our present Settlement Law: ' Whereas by reason of some defects in the law, poor...themselves in those parishes where there is the best stock, iWlargest commons or wastes to build cottages, and the most woods for them to burn and destroy; and... | |
 | Agriculture - 1854 - 618 pages
...habit. These squatters are described in the preamble of the statute in question, as endeavouring " to settle themselves in those parishes where there is the best stock kept, the largest commons and wastes to build cottages, and the most woods for them to burn and destroy,"... | |
 | James N. Mahon - Poor laws - 1835 - 214 pages
...whole kingdom of England and dominion of Wales, is very great, and exceedingly burthensome, and that, by reason of some defects in the law, poor people...those parishes where there is the best stock, the largest commons or wastes to build cottages, and the most woods for them to burn and destroy ; and... | |
 | Thomas Stephen - Constitutional history - 1835 - 806 pages
...defects in the law, poor people are not restrained from going from one parish to another, and therefore endeavour to settle themselves in those parishes where there is the best stock, the largest commons or wastes to build cottages, and the most for them to burn and destroy, and when they... | |
 | English literature - 1836 - 604 pages
...character. The preamble sets forth : — ' Whereas, by some defects of the law, poor people are nut restrained from going from one parish to another,...those parishes where there is the best stock, the largest commons or wastes to build cottages, and the most woods for them to burn and destroy, and when... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch, John Ramsay M'Culloch - Great Britain - 1839 - 760 pages
...substantially the same, when the 13 & 14 Car. 2. c. 12. (1661-2) was passed. This statute recites that " whereas by reason of some defects in the law, poor...those parishes where there is the best stock ; the largest commons or waste* to build cottages ; and the most woods for them to burn and destroy ; and... | |
 | John Tidd Pratt - 1843 - 672 pages
...Charles the Second, intituled, An Act for the better Relief of the Poor of this Kingdom, reciting, that whereas, by reason of some defects in the law, poor...those parishes where there is the best stock, the largest commons or wastes to build cottages, and the most woods for them to burn and destroy; and when... | |
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Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted . . . that whereas by reason of some defects in the law poor people are not restrained from going from one parish to another, and therefore do endeavour to settle themselves in those parishes where there... 
