A person whom ‘mental weakness and chronic physical disease’ renders incapable of maintaining himself, may, by the necessary residence for the requisite period in a charitable institution, without begging or applying for parochial relief, acquire a residential settlement in the parish where the institution is situated. Question whether an insane person could so acquire a residential settlement.
Judges:
Lord Chancellor (Loreburn), and Lords Macnaghten, Davey, James of Hereford, Robertson, and Atkinson
Citations:
[1906] UKHL 639, 43 SLR 639
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Benefits, Local Government
Updated: 26 May 2022; Ref: scu.625462