Case ID: dc_1/html/0140-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "The Court", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Elizabeth Ross v. Nicholas Kingston.
    This Court has jurisdiction to require the father of a bastard to give security for its , support.
    Motion to compel the father of a bastard to support it.
    
      Mr. Jones for the defendant.
    This Court has no jurisdiction — it is not within the words of the Act of Congress of February 27, 1801, [2 Stat. at Large, 103,] or of the act of the 3d of March, 1801, [ut sup. 115.]
    The Act of Assembly of Virginia gives a peculiar jurisdiction to the county court- only. Rev. Code, 1792, c. 102, <§> 23. This is no crime or offence. If it is an offence, this is not the mode of prosecuting it.
   The Court

overruled the objection to the jurisdiction.

Mr. Jones requested further time to obtain testimony to discredit the oath of the woman: Denied, because he ought to come prepared, or to have prayed further time before the cause was heard.

Mr. Jones moved the Court to permit the father to take the child to his own house to keep and maintain it, in case the Court should adjudge him to be the father: Refused, the power of binding out being with the overseers of the poor.

Order granted, to maintain the child by paying thirty dollars per annum for nine years ; and to recognize himself in 270 dollars, with two sureties, 135 dollars each, to that effect.