A Summary of the Laws of Massachusetts, Relative to the Settlement, Support, Employment and Removal of Paupers |
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act passed action adjudged aforesaid alterum non lædere apprentice or servant become chargeable BELISARIUS bound Braintree charge Clerk common law methods Common Pleas Commonwealth complaint Constable costs Counsellor at Law Court assembled Court of Common deducting reasonable deemed and taken defendants employment and removal entitled estopped estoppels expenses freehold estate further enacted gain a settlement hereby empowered house of correction incurred inhabitants Jane Wing judgment Juris præcepta Justice JUSTINIAN kindred land lawful settlement LAWS OF MASSACHUSETTS legal settlement liable Lord one thousand marriage Mass master ment months notice otherwise Overseers party Peace period person or persons person residing plaintiffs prosecuted recovered relief and support remove the paupers repealed Selectmen of Dartmouth sent or conveyed settlement therein slavery stand in need statute methods summons sunt hæc thereby gain thorised thousand seven hundred tice tion tlement town or district trict twenty verseers warned to depart warrant