between the parish OF NORTHLEITON and eaton a pauper adjudge a settlement on  the ground of a hire for a year although it appear he have be absent during  such hire for three week together without the consent of the master burr set  Cas pl S c a order state that a pauper be hire for and serve a year except  that he be absent from his master service in the middle of the year for three  week without his master consent and adjudge that he thereby gain a settlement  as a service for a year Mr Makepeice move to quash the order for that such  service be not a service for a year and therefore gain no settlement Abney  contra cite a case of the king and inhabitant of Islip stram fortesc Rep Cas  of set and Rem pl fol where the servant be absent thirteen day in the year and  even have a proportionable part of his wage abate and yet adjudge a good  service and gain a settlement Lord Hardwicke c j if it be not so it will  render these settlement the most precarious that can be and this have always  be the construction of the Act stat will III c S if the master take the  servant again order confirm the case where objection to the hire pauper obtain  a settlement have be raise on the ground of temporary absence be very numerous  but they seem to admit of be chief class be it where the mutual determination  of master and servant to dissolve the contract be not apparent as in the  present case and see I Str t r t r t r stat geo III c S t r east r d where  that determination be apparent see burr Sett can ib Const t r t r t r east r  east r d where the absence be preconcerted on the part of the master in order  fraudulent to deprive the pauper of his settlement see I Str Const see also t  r that where the absence be procure by fraud see Const burr Sett can b that  where by the act of the pauper the service be consider incomplete see call two  ib Const t r t r east r east r that where the hire itself be incomplete see  east r in most of these case thus class the animus see revertor  the  distinctive character of a suspend rather than of a determine contract be  discuss or consider