 ... commonwealth, when such parent through misfortune and without fault of his own is destitute of means of sustenance and unable by reason of old age, infirmity or illness to support and maintain himself...  The Southwestern Reporter - Page 3461919Full view - About this book
 | Massachusetts. Attorney General's Office - Attorneys general's opinions - 1917 - 188 pages
...Any person, above the age of twenty-one years, who, being possessed of sufficient means, unreasonably neglects or refuses to provide for the support and maintenance of his parent, whether father or mother, residing in this commonwealth, when such parent through misfortune... | |
 | Massachusetts - Massachusetts - 1922 - 992 pages
...General Laws) : — Any person, over twenty-one, who, being possessed of sufficient means, unreasonably neglects or refuses to provide for the support and maintenance of his parent, whether father or mother, residing in the commonwealth, when such parent through misfortune... | |
 | 1926 - 116 pages
...either of them, without making reasonable provision for their support, and any husband who unreasonably neglects or refuses to provide for the support and maintenance of his wife or minor child, and any husband who abandons or leaves his wife or minor child in danger of becoming... | |
 | Springfield (Mass.) - Springfield (Mass.) - 1912 - 1136 pages
...was designed and enacted to remedy, if possible, this evil. By its provisions a husband, who deserts, neglects, or refuses to provide for the support and maintenance of his wife, minor child or children, is deemed guilty of a crime, and, if he goes into another state, can be arrested... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 1344 pages
...man shall not be allowed to shift the burden of supporting his wife and children upon others ander no obligation to bear it and possibly upon the state...by sympathizing relatives, friends, or strangers, eo that she does not In fact suffer from the privation. He Is guilty If he leaves her in such circumstances... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 1340 pages
...Cent. Dig. § 1111 ; Dec. Dig. § 314.*] 4. HUSBAND AND WrFE (§ 304*)— PROSECUTION FOB NONSUPPOBT. Whenever a husband, without just cause, neglects or...sympathizing relatives, friends, or strangers, so that ehe does not in fact suffer from the privation. He is guilty if he leaves her in such circumstances... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 1232 pages
...STATUTE. The Desertion Act (Laws 1911, c. 163), which provides for the punishment of a husband who, without just cause, neglects or refuses to provide for the support and maintenance of his wife in destitute or necessitous circumstances, is not a mere poor law, and was not designed merely to redress... | |
 | Massachusetts - Charity laws and legislation - 1915 - 340 pages
...either of them without making reasonable provision for their support, and any husband who unreasonably neglects or refuses to provide for the support and maintenance of his wife or minor child or children, or abandons or leaves them or any or either of them in danger of becoming... | |
 | Massachusetts - Charity laws and legislation - 1915 - 336 pages
...becoming a burden upon the public, and any parent, whether father or mother, who deserts or wilfully neglects or refuses to provide for the support and maintenance of his or her child or children under the age of sixteen, or whose minor child by reason of the neglect, cruelty,... | |
 | Boston Herald. Bureau of Department Reports - 1916 - 1006 pages
...the violation of which the defendant has been convicted provides, that "any husband who unreasonably neglects or refuses to provide for the support and maintenance of his wife or minor child or children . . . shall be guilty of a crime, and on conviction thereof shall be punished... | |
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