Case ID: root_1/html/0155-04.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "by the Court.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Town of Canaan v. Town of Salisbury.
    A bastard child is settled with the mother.
    ActioN for supnorting Tom, a bastard child. Issue to the j nr v.
    
      The case was — -The mother of Tom was settled in Salisbury; she went from that place pregnant with Tom to Norfolk, was warned out; and as sbe was traveling' back through Canaan to Salisbury, Tom was bom in Canaan, and is a bastard. .
    Question was — "Whether Tom was settled in Canaan, where bom, or in Salisbury with his mother. Verdict for plaintiffs.
   And

by the Court.

Although by the laws of England, a bastard is settled where born, unless the mother is illegally thrust out; yet by the laws of this state, a bastard is settled with the mother, and this is agreeable to the law of nature and reason.