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Rating - From: 1200 To: 1799
This page lists 3 cases, and was prepared on 02 April 2018.
Sir Anthony Earby's case (1633) 2 Bulst 354
1633
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The liability to be rated rests upon the occupier of the property concerned. Assessments under the Act ought to be made according to the visible estate of the inhabitants there, both real and personal.
Poor Relief Act 1601
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The King v The Undertakers of The Aire and Calder Navigation [1788] EngR 223; (1788) 2 TR 660; (1788) 100 ER 356
12 Nov 1788
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Where a navigation runs from A. to B, through several intervening parishes, and the tolls for the whole navigation are collected in those two parishes, they may be assessed to the poor-rates in those two parishes for the whole amount according to the proportion collected in each. The justices at the sessions are the proper judges of the equality of poor-rates ; and the Court of B. R. will not interfere upon the ground of their being unequal, unless the inequality be manifestly apparent on the rate.
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The Company of Ironmongers v Naylor And Others [1793] EngR 1088; (1793) 2 Mod 185; (1793) 86 ER 1015 (B)
1793
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If an Act of Parliament impose a duty on "all houses and edifices whatsoever," with directions on non-payment to distrain, houses in the possession of a corporation, though unfinished, arid never occupied by any tenants whatsoever, are liable to the duty ; and the officers, on demand of payment made to, and refusal by, the corporation, may distrain as well the goods on the premises as elsewhere.
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