Hi , this is so good and so clear I wonder if I might pass it on to the Devon list as this is a very frequently asked question , what is a removal cert or a settlement cert , and this is very very clear .........will pass it on with your permission ........ life is hard . soften it with a cat \\\=^..^=/// ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sid Jones" <sjones1828@googlemail.com> To: <eng-hertfordshire@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 10:13 PM Subject: Re: [HRT] Settlement certificate Hexton query > Hello Angela and Roy, > > Just to add a little to Roy's message - according to J S Burn in his > Justice of tne Peace and Parish Officer 1827, the 1603/4 Statute required > the poor "to be sent to the place of their dwelling, if they had any: if > not > to the place where they last dwelt by the space of one year; if that could > not be known,then to the place of their birth." This one year > settlement > requirement had been preceded throughout the 16th c by a three year > period. > > Burn goes on to say that this continued to the time of statutes in 1672/3 > and 1673/4 when, after a recital explaining the problems then being > encountered , it was enacted that "upon complaint made by the > churchwardens > or overseers of the poor of any parish to any Justice of the Peace,within > 40 > days of any such person or persons coming so to settle..........in any > tenement under the yearly value of ten pounds, where any person or persons > that are likely to become chargeable to the parish shall come to > inhabit, for any two justices of the peace ..... ....by their warrant ro > remove and convey such person or persons to such parish where they were > last > legally settled for the space of 40 days at the least, unless they give > sufficient discharge of the said parish..... > > Other statutes affecting settleernt followed in the reigns of William 3rd > and George 3rd with the 40 day rule still in place, but lawyers were > enjoying themselves as lawyers do, questioning amongst other things, what > constituted a tenement, what was the valiue of the tenement and how it was > ascertained.so yet another Act was passed in July 1819 attempting to add > precision to the law and, unsuccessfully no doubt, to take some bread out > of lawyers' mouths. > > So, as ever, no matter how statute law stands, there have always been and > no > doubt always will be sufficient holes in the drafting for lawyers to > question it and make what appears to be black and white to be an amazing > array of greys. Burn himself takes all of 575 pages of small print to > deal > with all the shades of grey in those three ordinary words "Settlement and > Removal" !! > > Sid > > > Hertfordshire Surnames List > > http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/hertford.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-HERTFORDSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >