The King against The Inhabitants of Alveley
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 18 May 1803 |
| Date | 18 May 1803 |
| Court | Court of the King's Bench |
English Reports Citation: 102 E.R. 712
IN THE COURT OF KING'S BENCH.
[563] the king against the inhabitants of alveley. Wednesday, May 18th, 1803. A single woman living in service with her master is* not removeable even since the stat. 35 Geo. 3, c. 101, s. 6, against the consent both of herself and'her (a)1 5 Term Rep. 480. (J)i 17 Geo. 3, e. 26. (a)2 5 Term Rep. 641. ' (b)* i Bos. & Pull, 62. (c) 7 Term Rep. 495. (d) Ib. 540. (e) 8 Term Rep. 184. There the deed for securing the annuity stipulated that the trustee should permit the grantor to receive the rents and profits till default made in the payment of the annuity, and then in trust for the grantee; and the memorial stated the trust to be for the grantee generally, which was holden ill. 3 EAST, 564. THE KING V. ALVBLEY 713 master; though adjudged by the order of removal to be with child, and therefore deemed chargeable to the parish in which she was serving ; that statute not extending to make persons removeable, who were not proper objects of removal before, but only to leave certain descriptions of persons excepted out of the Act liable to be removed, though not in fact chargeable, if otherwise proper objects of removal. Two justices by an order removed Jane Hinson, single woman, from the parish of Kinver in the county of Stafford to the parish of Alveley in the county of Salop; in which order it was stated, that upon the complaint of the churchwardens and overseers of K. unto the said justices " that Jane Hinson, single woman, had come to inhabit in the said parish of K. not having gained a legal settlement there, and that the said J. H. is with child, and is therefore deemed chargeable to the said parish of K., they the said justices, upon due proof made thereof, as well upon the examination of the said J. H. upon oath as otherwise, and likewise upon due consideration had of the premises, did adjudge the same to be true, and did likewise adjudge that the lawful settlement of the said J. H. was in the said parish of A." &c. they did therefore require the said churchwardens, &e. of K. to convey and deliver, and the said churchwardens, &c. of A. to receive the pauper. The sessions on appeal confirmed the order, subject to the opinion of this Court on the following case. The pauper was'settled by birth in the parish of Alveley, and some time previous to Michaelmas 1801 hired herself to Edward Cox of Dunsby in the parish of Kinver for a year, at...
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