Christchurch v Bethnal green absence through sickness at the end of a year no  obstruction to the servant?s settlement SC burr Sett can motion to quash a  order of session which state that e S that August be hire for a year by a  person in the parish of n and stay in that service till that August follow and  then wasiseised with fit upon which she be send to the hospital by her master  desire and she look upon her contract as discharge all her wage be pay and  another servant hire in her stead and upon this the session adjudge her settle  with her master at n Norton object to this as not be a complete service Aston  and stow show cause and insist that when a servant be under the visitation of  God he shall be take as all the while in the service of his master king and  Islip Str and that absence for a reasonable cause will not defeat a settlement  ibidem and king and Sandwich Str Norton Morton and lane support the objection  by observe that the absence in the king and Islip be in the middle of the year  and therefore be purge by the master receive his servant again but here the  absence be at the end of the year Blackstone er p which can be purge at all  Seaford and Castlechurch Str and if any absence be permit at the end of the  year where shall we stop Mansfield CJ this case be one of the many instance of  the have policy of our poorlaw here have be a question litigate before two  justice then the session and last this court which before a plain man of sense  will have make Blackstone no question at all a service without fraud or  collusion in the same manner as servant good fide will otherwise have serve  their master if no poorlaw exist be a good service to gain a settlement if the  act of God prevent a servant from perform his contract this be incident to  humanity and be necessary a case exempt the master be not at liberty to turn  his servant out of door to subtract wage to deny food or necessary on account  of sickness nor can I frame a distinction between the visitation of God happen  at the beginning in the middle or at the end of the year Dennison I this be  the weak case to avoid a settlement I evermet with where absence be occasion  by the act of God it be not the return back to the service that gain the  settlement suppose the pauper have be bedrid in her master house this will  certain gain a settlement here the master for his own convenience desire her  to remove she must still be consider as his servant foster I the relation  between master and servant remain to the end of the year Wilmot I the  distinction be that if a servant be absent without a reasonable cause or  consent of the master in the middle of the year the offence may be purge by  the master take he again which can be do upon such absence at the end of the  year but if he be absent for a reasonable cause in the middle or at the end of  a year it be still a settlement rule for quash the order of session be  discharge per tot cur king king r v Madinglon burr SC r v Sharrington call  Bott b v Sutton TR ace but the service must have commence r v Wintersell call  see also Lewins law of settlement ed