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

  • Jelinger Cookson Symons
Date:
1846
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Credit: Parish settlements and the practice of appeals ... / Jellinger C. Symons. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    We cannot too strongly impress on parish officers, as well as on the profession, the essential need of attending care¬ fully, not merely to the necessary forms of procedure in all cases of removal and appeal, but to the accuracy and fulness of the statements and wording of all evidence, orders, and grounds of objection. If well examined, it will be found that many of the objec¬ tions, for instance, held fatal to orders, though apparently based on very slight grounds, are really founded on some serious verbal omission or error, which has the effect of leaving wdiolly mis-stated some important fact, which it is essential to express. The invalidity of orders or examina¬ tions is also very frequently caused by a slovenliness of ex¬ pression, which arises from the absence of a clear and defined notion of what the law requires. The law of settlements has been diversified by a succes¬ sion of rather capricious statutes; but when once clearly understood, it is not difficult to apply it to any particular case. Neither are there any peculiar forms or technicalities to perplex the practitioner in drawing the orders or grounds in ordinary cases. The niceties of special pleading enter far less into the work than the twro simple powers—first, of a comprehension of what the law requires; and, secondly, of stating all the required facts in plain English. It is quite true that omissions and inaccuracies which obtain in the haste and slovenliness of conversation, without preventing a
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