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Benefits - From: 1800 To: 1849
This page lists 4 cases, and was prepared on 03 April 2018.
Rex v Inhabitants of Eastbourne (1803) 4 East 103; [1803] EngR 629; (1803) 102 ER 769
1803
Lord Ellenborough CJ
Benefits, Immigration
As to there being no obligation for maintaining poor foreigners before the statutes ascertaining the different methods of acquiring settlements, the law of humanity, which is anterior to all positive laws, obliges us to afford them relief, to save them from starving.
1 Citers
[ Commonlii ]
Blackledge v Harman [1834] EngR 590; (1834) 1 M & Rob 344; (1834) 174 ER 118
15 Mar 1834
Benefits
[ Commonlii ]
Regina v The Inhabitants Of Stockton [1845] EngR 869; (1845) 7 QB 520; (1845) 115 ER 585
28 May 1845
Benefits, Local Government
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The Queen v The Inhabitants of Barnsley [1849] EngR 628; (1849) 12 QB 193; (1849) 116 ER 840
12 May 1849
Benefits, Local Government
It is not necessary that a lunatic, chargeable to a parish, should be sent to an asylum or licensed house. The justice before whom he is brought is to decide whether he is a proper person to he confined or not; and, if not corifined, he may Be removed to his parish as an ordinary pauper. An idiot, aged thirty, living with his parents in parish B., became chargeable; and thereupon he and they were removed by order of justices to parish T., their place of settlement. The order was never appealed against. The father retained his house in B, in the care of two of his children, who were emancipated; and, when removed, he intended to return as soon as he could. After four days, the paupers did return to the house in B, with the consent of the overseers of T, who promised to send weekly relief to the parents for the son : but the son again became chargeable to B; and another order was made, finding the son and parents chargeable, and ordering their removal to T. The famiIy had resided in B. for five years next before the makirig of this order, excepting only the four days above mentioned. On appeal (not stating as a ground that the parents were not chargeable at the date of the second order), and case stated by the sessions : Held that the five years' residence was broken by the removal to parish T., arid that the paupers were not irremoveable from B. under stat. 9 & 10 Vict. c. 66, s. I.
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