Where a bill was brought for the customary tithes of oysters, alleging the customary payment to be to the owners and occupiers of boats employed in the fishery, and usually moored within the parish, Held, that it was not necessary to make the dredgers for the oysters, who had no interest in the boats, but who shared in the profits of the oysters, parties to the bill. – Oyster dredgers agreeing to receive from the owners of the boats, who were their employers, a stipulated share of the profits arising from the sale of the oysters, held not to be co-adventurers with the owners. The circumstance that property situate on the sea-shore, between a sea-side town and the sea, has not been assessed to the poor’s rates of the parish in which the town is situate, is very slender evidence of the property not being within the parish.
Citations:
[1836] EngR 670, (1836) 2 Y and C Ex 61, (1836) 160 ER 312
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Rating, Agriculture, Land
Updated: 11 September 2022; Ref: scu.315002