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Immigration - From: 1800 To: 1849
This page lists 1 cases, and was prepared on 06 August 2015.
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.
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