BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE POOR LAW COMMISSIONERS. AN ABRIDGMENT OF THE CASES UPON THE SUBJECT OF THE POOR LAW, DECIDED SINCE THE PASSING OF THE 4 & 5 WILL. IV. e. 76. AND A COLLECTION OF THE SUBSEQUENT ENACTME NTS BY WILLIAM GOLDEN LUMLEY, Esq., BARRISTER-AT-LAW, ONE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARIES OF THE POOR LAW LONDON: CHARLES KNIGHT AND Co., 22, LUDGATE STREET. 1840. GENTLEMEN, TO THE POOR LAW COMMISSIONERS. Poor Law Commission Office, Somerset-House February 17, 1840. According to your directions I have prepared the following Abridgment of the Reports of all the cases which have been determined upon the law relating to the relief of the poor, since the passing of the Poor Law Amendment Act, 4 & 5 Will. IV., c. 76, in 1834. I have made the Abridgment by no means close, as your instructions to me implied that you required something more than the short note which is given in the margin of the Reports. Your object being the circulation of instruction upon this subject, I felt that though both the statement of facts and of the arguments of counsel can often bear considerable retrenchment, very little abridgment of the doctrines expressed by judicial authority was desirable. I have adopted a simple arrangement of the cases in the following order : 1. Those applicable to the powers of the Commissioners. 2. Those relative to the Vestry, the Officers of the Guardians, and Overseers. 3. To Parochial Property. 4. To the Poor Rate. 5. To the Maintenance of Relations, and especially of Bastards. 6. To the Relief and Removal of Paupers. 7. To the Settlement of Paupers. 8. To the Practice on Appeals. 9. Some cases on Evidence particularly applicable to this branch of law. B |