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Sessions of the peace
amended by the 1926 Act. Quarter sessions also hear appeals relating to licensing, rating, highways, and removal of poor persons. Appeals to quarter sessions are re-hearings. As to procedure when the appeal is from an order or … Stealing or injuring records or documents belonging to any court of law. (18) Stealing or destroying, or concealing, wills or documents containing evidence of title to real estate. (19) Offences against s. 9 of the (English) Nigh
Adoption
See Geary on Marriage and Family Relations, and Law Reform (Misc. Prov.) Act; 1934, s. 2. Adoption of Poor Child.--Sometimes benevolent persons apply to County or Borough Councils, formerly boards of guardians, to be permitted to adopt … closely related, and a British subject, resident and domiciled in England or Wales, but a single adopter, only, will be authorized unless two spouses jointly apply. A male may not adopt a female infant unless the court
Family
support, but is an expression of great flexibility and is liberally construed, and includes brothers and sisters in poor financial circumstances for whom the insane ward, if competent, would make provision (p. 311). The general or ordinarily … individual, the wife or husband, as the case may be, of such individual and their unmarried minor children, will not necessarily lead to concentration of wealth in the hands of a few persons or families. Such is
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Husband and wife
by his order'her covertures is no excuse. As to maintenance of the wife by the husband under the Poor Law, by 5 Geo. 1, c. 8, a husband running away and leaving wife or children chargeable to … favour; (3) by the custom of particular places; (4) by surrendering copyholds to her use; and (5) by will. Equity, however, from very early times, by the doctrines of 'separate use,' 'trusts,' and 'equity to a settlement,'
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