...setting to work all such persons, married or unmarried, having no means to maintain them, and using no ordinary and daily trade of life to get their living by ; and for the necessary relief of the lame, impotent, old, blind, and such other among them being poor and...

...— " The churchwardens and overseers of ib? poor of every parish, or the greater part of them, shall raise weekly, or otherwise, (by taxation of every inhabitant, parson, vicar, and other, aoJ of every occupier of land, houses, tithes impropriate, propriatory of tithes, coal mines, or saleable...

...provided "For setting to work persons, married or unmarried, having no means to maintain them, and using no ordinary and daily trade of life to get their living by ;" and funds for " the necessary relief of the lame, impotent, old, blind, and such other among them being...

...strictly enough, to confine relief to the aged and infirm, and to provide merely that all persons " using no ordinary and daily trade of life to " get their living by" should be " set on work." This was construed into an obligation to provide work for the ablebodied,...

...statute it was provided that the overseers should take order for setting to work ' all persons using no ordinary and daily ' trade of life to get their living by,' — and these words must be taken to exclude those who are in work, and ' who do use an ' ordinary and daily...

...or unmarried, JMizaoetn, с oo means to maintain them, as use no ordinary and daily trade of , c ' to get their living by: And also to raise weekly or otherwise (by taxlofevery inhabitant (9), parson, vicar and other, and of every occupier tynaston, 1 East, 118. They...

...keep and maintaaithem: also, all persons, married and unmarried, having no means to maaaain them, and use no ordinary and daily trade of life to get their living by ; atd for the putting out poor children apprentices. It may now be prc>fessedly made for the express...

...all " such persons, married or unmarried, having no means to " maintain them, and use no ordinary or daily trade of life to " get their living by ;" and also to raise by taxation, &c. a convenient stock of flax, &c. to set the poor on work, and also competent sums of...

...be withheld. The further descriptive words of the enactment, for setting to work "all persons using no ordinary and daily trade of life to get their living by," must be taken to exclude from relief all cases of persons who are in work, and " who do use an ordinary...

...who apply or who do not apply) " married or unmarried, having no means to maintain them, and using no ordinary and daily trade of life to get their living by," must be taken as having reference to a class of persons who, whilst there was no adequate statutary...