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.

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    father, which application must be made by her to any justice of the peace acting within the petty sessional division she re¬ sides in. The act gives the woman an option either to apply before or after the birth. The object in applying before it, is to serve the summons on the man at once, in case he was sus¬ pected of an intent to abscond. When the application is thus made before birth, it must be accompanied by a depo¬ sition on oath stating who the father is. Upon which the justice is empowered to grant a summons upon the father, which, by the fourth section of the last act, is to require him to appear at a petty session for which the justice usually acts, on some day after that on which the woman expects to be delivered. Mr. Lumley, of the Poor Law Commission (who has published a useful little edition of the Amendment Act), prudently suggests to the justice the necessity of mak¬ ing inquiries when the woman expects to be confined, and to be well enough to attend the petty sessions, to which the man is to be summoned accordingly. Adjournment of the hearing.—If the woman be not suffi¬ ciently recovered to attend the petty sessions on the day fixed (provided it is within the space of two calendar months of her confinement), the hearing is to be adjourned under the same section, although more than forty days have elapsed since the summons was served. The mother can insist on a summons, though she be not near the time of her confine¬ ment, though it is expedient to postpone it to near the time. Application of the mother after the birth.—In this case there need be no deposition on oath, but merely an infor¬ mation in the form given by the last act, and inserted in Appendix. The time of this application must be within twelve months after the birth of the child (c), unless the father has paid money for the maintenance of the child] within twelve months of its birth, and in which case the ap4 (c) The clause providing for cases of children born within six months before the act passed is already superannuated.