Settlements are supposed in law to be indifferent to pauper… - John Eardley Wilmot

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Settlements are supposed in law to be indifferent to paupers; though they are often in fact desirous of one in preference to another.

John Eardley Wilmot

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Sir John Eardley Wilmot PC (Derby, England, 16 August 1709 – London, 5 February 1792), was an English judge, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas from 1766 to 1771.

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