 Eliz. c. 2, s. 7, which provided " that the father and grandfather, and the mother and grandmother, and the children of every poor, old, blind, lame, and impotent person, or other poor person not able to work, being of sufficient ability, shall, at their...  The influence of interest and prejudice upon proceedings in parliament ... - Page 59by Alexander Mundell - 1825 - 210 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William John Dixon - 1908 - 590 pages
...hence his interest in the question of the validity of his child's marriage (x). The statute enacts that the father and grandfather, and the mother and...of every poor, old, blind, lame and impotent person not able to work, &c., shall, at their own charge, relieve and maintain every such poor person, according... | |
 | Alexander Wood Renton, Maxwell Alexander Robertson - 1906 - 716 pages
...the manor, to build houses upon the waste land of the parish for the impotent poor. Sec. 6 enacted that " the father and grandfather, and the mother...person, or other poor person not able to work, being of sufficient ability, shall, at their own charges, relieve and maintain every such poor person," which... | |
 | Llewellyn Archer Atherley-Jones, Hugh Hale Leigh Bellot - 1909 - 456 pages
...statutory enactment casting this burden upon them was the Poor Law Act, 1601. (b) By sect. 7 of this Act "the father and grandfather and the mother and grandmother,...person or other poor person not able to work, being of sufficient ability shall at their own charges relieve and maintain " their children in such manner... | |
 | Beatrice Webb - 1909 - 660 pages
...specifically enacted by the Elizabethan statesmen. Under the Poor Relief Act of 1601 (43 Eliz. c. 4, sec. 7) " the father and grandfather, and the mother and grandmother,...lame and impotent person, or other poor person not being able to work, being of a sufficient ability, shall at their own charges, relieve and maintain... | |
 | State Association of Superintendents of the Poor (Michigan). - 1909 - 1620 pages
...he failed to contribute. It .was also provided by the statute that the "father, grandfather, mother, grandmother and the children of every poor, old blind, lame and impotent person or other person not able to work, being of sufficient ability, shall relieve and maintain at their own charges,... | |
 | Great Britain. Magistrates' cases - 1909 - 732 pages
...have not sufficiently considered that the statute of Elizabeth put upon " the father and grandfather, mother and grandmother, and the children of every poor, old, blind, lame, and impotent person," the duty of maintaining them. I may be wrong upon that, but I have always understood that that liability... | |
 | Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead - 1911 - 988 pages
...old statute of 43 Eliz. c. 2, s. 7, which provided " that the father and grandfather, and tho inothor and grandmother, and the children of every poor, old,...person, or other poor person not able to work, being of sufficient ability, shall, at their own charges, relieve and maintain every such poor person, in that... | |
 | William Hubert Stuart Garnett - 1911 - 292 pages
...duty to ma1nta1n h1s ch1ldren is 1n sect1on 7 of the Poor Relief Act of Elizabeth (g), which provided that " the father and grandfather, and the mother and grandmother, and the children of (rf) R. v. Mabbett, 5 Cox, 339. 4 Cox, CC 454. GO 8 Edw. 7, c. 67, s. 12. (/) 43 Eliz. c. 2, s, 7.... | |
 | Eleanor Constance Lodge - 1912 - 448 pages
...maintenance of any of his relatives who were dependent on public relief. Section 7 of the Act provided : ' That the father and grandfather, and the mother and...person, or other poor person not able to work, being of sufficient ability shall at their own charges relieve and maintain every such poor person in that manner,... | |
 | 1912 - 418 pages
...maintenance of any of his relatives who were dependent on public relief. Section 7 of the Act provided : 4 That the father and grandfather, and the mother and...person, or other poor person not able to work, being of sufficient ability shall at their own charges relieve and maintain every such poor person in that manner,... | |
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