The Queen v The Inhabitants of St Marylebone: 29 May 1850

Stat. 35 G. 3, c. 73, renders the incoming and the outgoing tenant of premises in the parish of St. Marylebone liable respectively to the payment of the rates of the parish in proportion to the times of their occupation respectively. A. occupied a house in St. Marylebone for the latter part of a year, in respect of which the outgoing tenant was rated ; and A. paid the portion of the rate in respect of the time during which he occupied, but was not entered on the ratebook as occupier for any part of that time. Held, that he acquired a settlement under stat. 3 W. and M. c. 11, s. 6.

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[1850] EngR 590, (1850) 15 QB 399, (1850) 117 ER 510

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Updated: 02 May 2022; Ref: scu.297937