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The King v The Inhabitants of Gravesend. in B. R

Nominate Series English Reports Cited in 189 Precedent Map Related
Vincent
JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date01 January 1792
Date01 January 1792
CourtCourt of the King's Bench

English Reports Citation: 92 E.R. 980

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, COMMON PLEAS AND EXCHEQUER

The King
and
ers. The Inhabitants of Gravesend. In B. R

START 3 80 DE TEEM. PASCH. 13 WILL. III. 1COMYNS.W. case 66. the king vers. the inhabitants of gravesend. in B. R. Order of removal ill, because the pauper was thereby sent to the master, and not to the parish where settled. 3 Burn's Just. 477. A motion was made to quash an order of sessions. First, because an order was made by two justices to send J. Goodberry from Gravesend to Lawton her master in Chadwell (with whom she was hired as a servant for a year) until she should be discharged; and afterwards on the 21st of November, (the first order having been made on the 6th of November by the justices of Gravesend), another order was made by two justices of the county of Essex, to send the same person from the parish of Chad well to the parish of Gravesend ; and it was insisted that the second order was ill, being made before any appeal from the first order, or discharge from the service. Sed non allocatur; for the first order waa to send the person to her master, from which order no appeal lies, and not to send her to the parish of Chadwell as the place of her settlement. Secondly, ifc...

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