Note 29 — LECTURE VI
Reading edition
The question of the domicile or “settlement” of paupers was the cause of endless litigation. See Mr. Blake Odgers’ lecture V in “A Century of Law Reform.” He quotes a judgment in 1724 which has been preserved in rhyme.
“A woman, having a ‘settlement,’ married a man with none. The question was, he being dead, if what she had is gone. Quoth Sir John Pratt, the ‘settlement’ suspended did remain, Living the husband; but, him dead, it doth revive again.”