A digest of the law relating to public health and local government : with notes of 1073 leading cases, various official documents, precedents of by-laws and regulations, the statutes in full, a table of offences and punishments, ample indexes, &c / by George F. Chambers.
- George Frederick Chambers
- Date:
- 1875
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A digest of the law relating to public health and local government : with notes of 1073 leading cases, various official documents, precedents of by-laws and regulations, the statutes in full, a table of offences and punishments, ample indexes, &c / by George F. Chambers. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![PART II. BiijjfSt of Cases. The object aimed at in the compilation of the following Notes is sufficiently explained in the Preface, and tlie reader is accordingly requested to refer to wliat is there said; but a few additional explanations will not be out of place here. Where a decision was appealed against, references to reports of the case in its earlier stages are usu- ally omitted unless the facts and arguments were not set forth with satisfactory fulness at the final stage. Much confusion often arises in citing references to periodicals running over a long term of years, where there exists an Old and a New Series of each. Having considered this matter in connection with the Law Journal and Law Times, and bearing in mind that the New Series of each of these peri- odicals has now been going on for many years, and that references to the Old Series are not only very few, but of annually diminishing importance, it has been decided on reflection to suppress the letters jsr. S. usually appended to references to the above-named periodicals, and to do the converse thing, that is, append the letters O. s. to such references as apply to the Old Series of each respectively. This arrangement, it is to be understood, is limited to the Lmv Journal and Law Times and does not ex- tend to any other works, so that the Common Bench Reports, for instance, are cited in the usual way, as Common Bench and Common Bench, New Series, and so on in other instances. The classification adopted is the result of much thought and patient labour : like all such undertakings it is doubtless open to criticism, but the ample iudex appended, coupled with a little ingenuity on the part of the reader in always turning to more heads than one, will it is hoped render reference to the cases a task free from serious difficulty. Though the Weelcly Reporter is not as a rule cited here, many of the following cases will be found therein. The dates appended will facilitate search. Accountant. Eaigh v. North Bierley Union. A Board of Guardians by resolution employed an Accountant; his ap- pointment was not by a contract under seal, but he was held entitled to recover for work done, &c. (28 L. J., Q. B. 62 : E. B. & E., 873 : 31 L. T. (o.s.) 2I3-) 1857- [2] Eeg. V. Worlcsop L. B. (i.) Accountant—Held that the Com-t of Quarter Sessions was entitled to decide whether a Local Board was justified in incurring the expense of employing an accountant. (21 J. P., 451.) Adoption of Acts, 1857- [3] Barber v. Jessopp. VaUdity of appUcation of the Local Government Act, 1858—Inexact use of the terms parish, town/'and township— Application held valid—General highway rate levied over the whole Parish held invalid. (26 . L. J., Ex. 186: iH.&N.,s78: 28 L. T. (o. s.), 306.) „.'^S''- [4] 2 A Act, 1858—Appeal to Secretary of State who confirmed the adoption—Mandamus for a PoU of the Eatepayers refused as too late. (28 L. J., Q. B., 223: I E. & E., 931 : 33 L. T. (o. s.), 162.) 1871- Cs] Driver v. Kingston Highway Board. Adoption of Public Health Act, 1848 —Eepau- of liighways —Outstanding contract with the Highway Board. (24 L. T., 480: 20 W. E., 20.) 1870. [6] Littleborovgh L. B., Ex-parte. Meeting to adopt Local Government Act, 1858—Chau-man takes the show of hands, but if a PoU is demanded, the Summonitig Ofiicer is to conduct it. (22 L. T., 437-) 1862. [7] Matlock Bath District, Ex-parte. Local Government Act, 1858, §§ 12,14, and 16—Though a place has boundaries assigned to it, it cannot adopt the above Act imtil the parish in which it is situated has refused to do so—Mandamus to Secretary of State to publish boimdaries, refused, because the parish meanwhile had resolved to adopt the Act.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20386643_0135.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
