The Law Relating to Children: A Short Treatise on the Personal Status of Children : with Notes and FormsStevens and Sons, 1905 - 298 pages |
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... duty was good ground for the exercise of such discretion , and in another case ( k ) , that it was the duty of the Court to consider all the circum- stances in their bearing upon the welfare of the child . It was in one case ( 1 ) held ...
... duty was good ground for the exercise of such discretion , and in another case ( k ) , that it was the duty of the Court to consider all the circum- stances in their bearing upon the welfare of the child . It was in one case ( 1 ) held ...
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... duties , the Court shall not restore the child to the parent , unless it is satisfied that he is a fit and proper person to have the custody of it , ( k ) but the person with whom the child has ( a ) 24 & 25 Vict . c . 100 , s . 26 ...
... duties , the Court shall not restore the child to the parent , unless it is satisfied that he is a fit and proper person to have the custody of it , ( k ) but the person with whom the child has ( a ) 24 & 25 Vict . c . 100 , s . 26 ...
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... duty of the Court ex officio to discharge him . ( a ) An infant between the ages of seven and fourteen Between seven years is likewise presumed to be incapable of committing a felony , but in this case the presumption may ( except on a ...
... duty of the Court ex officio to discharge him . ( a ) An infant between the ages of seven and fourteen Between seven years is likewise presumed to be incapable of committing a felony , but in this case the presumption may ( except on a ...
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... duties may be brought before a Court of summary jurisdiction and ordered to perform them , and if he do not comply with the order , he may be imprisoned for fourteen days . ( i ) ( f ) 25 Vict . c . 18 ; see post , p . 232 . ( g ) 26 ...
... duties may be brought before a Court of summary jurisdiction and ordered to perform them , and if he do not comply with the order , he may be imprisoned for fourteen days . ( i ) ( f ) 25 Vict . c . 18 ; see post , p . 232 . ( g ) 26 ...
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... duty of supplying an When voluntarily infant with food and clothing and is provided by the undertaken . father with ... duty , and violated the ( g ) Post , P. 86 . ( h ) R. v . Bubb , 4 Cox , 455 . Servant may have " charge . " Malice ...
... duty of supplying an When voluntarily infant with food and clothing and is provided by the undertaken . father with ... duty , and violated the ( g ) Post , P. 86 . ( h ) R. v . Bubb , 4 Cox , 455 . Servant may have " charge . " Malice ...
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12 Vict 25 Vict 30 Vict 49 Vict accused aforesaid age of sixteen ante application attend authorised authority byelaw carnal knowledge cause certified industrial school certified reformatory school charge Children Act committed common assault Common Law complaint consent constable convicted thereof Court of Chancery Court of Summary Cruelty to Children custody deemed defendant detained detention discretion employed evidence factory father felony fourteen guilty habitual drunkard hard labour imprisoned indecent assault indictable offence indictment Industrial Schools Act infant inspector jury justice or justices justices or magistrate liable licence Majesty's Treasury means misdemeanor months mother neglect o'clock parish payment peace penal servitude penalty Petty Sessional premises Prevention of Cruelty prisoner prosecution punishment purpose respect retreat schedule Scotland Secretary sent summary conviction Summary Jurisdiction Act summons term not exceeding therein think fit tion unlawful carnal knowledge warrant woman or girl workhouse young person youthful offender
Popular passages
Page 138 - means the Act of the session of the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter forty-three, intituled, " An Act to facilitate the performance of the duties of justices of the peace out of sessions within England and Wales with respect to summary convictions and orders," inclusive of any Acts amending the same.
Page 196 - Correction, there to be kept to hard labour for any time not exceeding three calendar months...
Page 117 - ... and in contravention of his orders, then the inspector shall proceed against the person whom he believes to be the actual offender in the first instance without first proceeding against the occupier of the factory or workshop.
Page 214 - ... but if any such variance shall appear to the justice or justices present and acting at such hearing to be such that the party so apprehended under such warrant has been thereby deceived or misled, it shall be lawful for such justice or justices, upon such terms as he or they shall think fit, to adjourn the hearing of the case to some future day...
Page 196 - ... every person wandering abroad, or placing himself or herself in any public place, street, highway, court, or passage, to beg or gather alms, or causing or procuring or encouraging any child or children so to do, shall be deemed an idle and disorderly person...
Page 154 - Provision in the final Decree, as it may deem just and proper with respect to the Custody, Maintenance, .and Education of the Children the Marriage of whose Parents is the Subject of such Suit or other Proceeding, and may, if it shall think fit, direct proper Proceedings to be taken for placing such Children under the Protection of the Court of Chancery.
Page 237 - The court upon convicting the person charged may discharge him conditionally on his giving security, with or without sureties, to appear for sentence when called upon, or to be of good behaviour, and either without payment of damages and costs, or subject to the payment of such damages and costs, or either of them, as the court think reasonable...
Page 235 - ... shall cause the charge to be reduced into writing and read to the person charged, and then address a question to him to the following effect : "Do you desire to be tried by a jury. or do you consent to the case being dealt with summarily...
Page 171 - Magistrate may also sentence him to be sent, at the expiration of his period of imprisonment, to a Certified Reformatory School, and to be there detained for a period of not less than two years and not more than five years.
Page 31 - ... generally, as used in courts of law, implies nothing blamable, but merely that the person of whose action or default the expression is used is a free agent, and that what has been done arises from the spontaneous action of his will. It amounts to nothing more than this, that he knows what he is doing and intends to do what he is doing, and is a free agent": 29 Am.