The Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer, Volume 4

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Page 48 - WE, 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 104 - ... (by taxation of every inhabitant, parson, vicar, and other, and of every occupier of lands, houses, tithes impropriate, propriations of tithes, coal mines, or saleable underwoods in the said parish...
Page 78 - Eliz. c. 2, s. 7, which provided " that the father and grandfather, and the mother and grandmother, and the children of every poor, old, blind, lame, and impotent person, or other poor person not able to work, being of sufficient ability, shall, at their own charges, relieve and maintain every such poor person...
Page 458 - HM's courts of record at Westminster ; and where any distress shall be made for any sum or sums of money to be levied by virtue of this act, the distress itself shall not be deemed unlawful, nor the party or parties making the same be deemed a trespasser or trespassers, on account of any defect or want of form in the summons...
Page 104 - ... necessary relief of the lame, impotent, old, blind and such other among them being poor and not able to work, and also for the putting out of such children to be apprentices, to be gathered out of the same parish according to the ability of the same parish ; and to do and execute all other things as well for the disposing of the said stock as otherwise concerning the premises as to them shall seem convenient...
Page 259 - ... attorney or agent, in writing, signed by the party demanding the same, of the perusal and copy of such warrant, and the same has becn refused or neglected for the space of six days after such demand...
Page 34 - ... executed and performed, and to fix such yearly salary for the execution of the said office as shall by such inhabitants in vestry be thought fit ; and it shall be lawful for any two of his majesty's justices of the peace, and they are hereby empowered, by warrant under their hands and seals, to appoint any person or persons who shall be nominated and elected to be assistant overseer or overseers of the poor, for such purposes and with such salary as shall have been fixed by the inhabitants in...
Page 125 - The principle to be collected from all the cases on the subject is, that if the party rated have the use of the building or other subject of the rate as a mere servant of the Crown, or of any public body, or in any other respect for the mere exercise of public duty therein, and have no beneficial occupation of or emolument resulting from it in any personal and private respect, then he is not rateable.
Page 47 - ... may and they are hereby empowered to accept, take, and hold, in the nature of a body corporate, for and on behalf of the parish, all such buildings, lands, and hereditaments, and also all other buildings, lands, and hereditaments belonging to such parish...
Page 458 - ... in any such action, by leave of the court where such action shall depend, at any time before issue joined, to pay into court such sum of money as he shall...

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