Parish settlements and the practice of appeals ... / Jellinger C. Symons.

  • Symons, Jelinger C. (Jelinger Cookson), 1809-1860.
Date:
1846
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Parish settlements and the practice of appeals ... / Jellinger C. Symons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    318/377 (page 267)
    OBJECTIONS TO TENEMENT SETTLEMENTS. 247 Form 13.— That there teas no sufficient residence. That the said A B did not reside for forty days in our said parish of , during the year of the tenancy in the said examination mentioned, so as to gain a settlement thereby according to law. And we, &c. Form 14.— That there teas no payment of rates (since Aug. 14, 1834.) That the said A B, at the time when he rented the said tenement in the said examination mentioned, was not assessed to the poor rate [or, being assessed to the poor rate, did not pay the same] in respect of such tenement for one year, and therefore gained no settlement, according to the statute in that case made and provided. And we, &c. Section XXIY. — Form of Stating a Tenement Settlement when alleged by Appellants. That the said A B, subsequently to the settlement which he is alleged in the said examination to have gained in our said parish of B by hiring and service, on the day of , a. d. 1825, acquired a settlement by hiring of one D E a separate and distinct dwelling-house in the parish of F for the term of one year, com¬ mencing on the 25th day of March, 1839, at the rent or sum of 12/. per annum ; and that the said A B actually occupied the said dwelling-house for the whole period of the said year, and under the said hiring, and that he, the said A B, paid the sum of 10/. 10s. of the said rent for the said term to the said D E, and that he, the said A B, was duly assessed to the poor rate of the said parish of T in the sum of 1/. 2s., and paid the same, in respect of such dwelling-house as aforesaid, for one year; and that he, the said A B, resided for more than forty days during the said tenancy in the said parish of T. And we, &c. Section XXV.—Law of Rate Settlement. Relation of the rate to the tenement settlement.—This settlement has, since Aug. 14, 1834, virtually superseded and taken the place of the tenement settlement; for less than is now required to constitute a settlement by renting a tenement gives one by payment of rates. The difference now is, that the tenement need not be occupied by the hirer, to give the latter settlement. It is a feature worth remark- c> ing in the clashing career of these two settlements, that from