 | William Golden Lumley - 1871 - 604 pages
...unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction ; that is to say, " Parish " shall mean every place having separate overseers...the poor, and separately maintaining its own poor (a) : "Borough" shall mean city, borough, port, cinque port, or town corporate : "Ratepayers" shall... | |
 | Thomas Baker - Burial laws - 1873 - 360 pages
...shall be defrayed as provided by the said acts.—20 & 21 Viet. c. 81, s. 2. " Parish " shall mean(J) every place having separate overseers of the poor, and separately maintaining its own poor.—15 & 16 Vict. c. 85, s. 52. No resolution or proceeding of any vestry, or meeting in the nature... | |
 | Churchwarden - Ecclesiastical law - 1876 - 200 pages
...unless there be something in the Subject or Context repugnant to such Construction : (that is to say,) " Parish " shall mean every Place having separate Overseers of the Poor and maintaining its own Poor, and also every Parish or Place having a separate Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction,... | |
 | Great Britain - Law - 1877 - 1304 pages
...unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction ; that is to say, " Parish " shall mean every place having separate overseers...the poor, and separately maintaining its own poor: " Ratepayers " shall mean the persons for the time being assessed to and paying rates for the relief... | |
 | International health exhibition, 1884 - 1877 - 448 pages
...to the municipal corporation of such borough.' In a ' parish ' — separately defined by the Act to mean, 'Every place having separate overseers of the poor, and separately maintaining its own poor' — the mode of putting the Act in operation was to be somewhat different. As the provisions of this... | |
 | Edward Wilberforce - Government paperwork - 1881 - 494 pages
...upon the 15 & 16 Yict. c. 85. where an interpretation clause provided that the word "parish" should mean every place having separate overseers of the poor, and separately maintaining its own poor. It was held that the word parish, when used in the Act, was not confined to such places (d). Again,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 632 pages
...to put an end to burial in the metropolis, and the interpretation clause defines " parish " to be " every place having separate overseers of the poor and separately maintaining its own poor," and overseers to be " any persons authorised and required to make and collect or cause to be collected... | |
 | Reginald Winslow - Dissenters, Religious - 1886 - 260 pages
...Home Office. (a) 18 & 19 Viet. c. 128, s. 3. (6) A parish is defined by 15 & 16 Viet. c. 85, s. 52, to mean " every place having separate overseers of the poor, and separately maintaining its own poor." It has been held that the operation of this is not to exclude parishes which do not fulfil these conditions,... | |
 | James Brooke Little - Burial - 1902 - 900 pages
...is made by Order in Council, not by the vestrics. " Parish " is defined, s. 52, post, as meaning " Every place having separate overseers of the poor, and separately maintaining its own poor." This has been interpreted as meaning "every parish and every place having separate overseers of the... | |
 | Alfred William Stephens Cross - Architecture - 1906 - 362 pages
...unless there be something in the Subject or Context repugnant to such Construction ; that is to say, " Parish " shall mean every Place having separate Overseers...the Poor, and separately maintaining its own Poor : " Borough " shall mean City, Borough, Port, Cinque Port, or Town Corporate : " Rate-payers " shall... | |
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Act the following words and expressions shall have the several meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction ; that is to say, " Parish " shall mean every place having separate overseers... 
