NELSON.
Thursday. The first case under the Destitute Persons Act, 1877, was heard (o-day, when a widow sought to compel her deceased husband's father to contribute to the maintenance of her children. Mr Lowther Broad, 8.M., ruled that the children living with a parent not incapacitated from working for taem were not destitute under the new Act, and that such parent could not compel any other relation to contribute to their support. He also expressed a strong doubt whether, upon the construction of the Act, looked at as a whole, infant children could under any circumstances be held to be destitute persons.
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2810, 15 February 1878, Page 2
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102NELSON. Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2810, 15 February 1878, Page 2
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