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Workhouses

Workhouses, municipal institutions for the support and maintenance of poor persons. See (English) Poor Law Act, 1930 (20 Geo. 5, c. 17), ss. 21 to 34;

Magna Carta

the quantity of his offence.' A man's contenement is that which is absolutely necessary for his support and maintenance, as his tools and instruments of trade; and wainage is that which is necessary for the labourer and

Hearing handicap

is not dependent on any person other than such individual or Hindu undivided family for his support or maintenance; and (ii) is suffering from a permanent physical disability (including blindness) or is subject to mental retar-dation, being

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Charitable uses and trusts

or to or in trust for the colleges of Eton, Winchester, or Westminster, for the better support and maintenance of the scholars upon the foundations thereof; and various Acts of Parliament passed from time to time have

Contenement

he has with, and by reason of, his freehold; or that which is necessary for the support and maintenance of men, agreeably to their several qualities or states of life, Jac. Law Dict.

necessaries

expenses that are considered necessary: as a : such goods, services, or expenses as are essential to the maintenance and support of a present or former spouse or of the child of divorced parents and for which

luxury tax

luxury tax : an excise levied on the purchase of items that are not essential for support or maintenance

endow

to furnish with income ;esp : to make a grant of money providing for the continuing support or maintenance of [a scholarship ed by the testator]

Livelihood

Subsistence or living as dependent on some means of support the means for support of life maintenance

school district

school district A public and quasi-municipal corporation, organized by legislative authority comprising a defined territory, for the erection, maintenance, government and support of the public schools within its territory. Source: FindLaw

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