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Alnet, De
Alms. Charitable contributions. The receipt of parochial relief or other alms was a disqualification for the parliamentary franchise in
Begging
Begging, means: (i) soliciting or receiving alms in a public place or entering into any private premises for the purpose of soliciting or receiving alms,
Tenure
referred to. The old Saxon ecclesiastical tenures, which were continued under the Normans, are these: (1) Frankalmoigne [free alms], by which religious corporations and their successors held lands of the donor, without any service other than the
Maundy Thursday
Maundy Thursday [fr. maund, Sax., an alms-basket, or dies mandati, Lat., the day of the command], the day preceding Good Friday, on which princes give
Vagrants
or placing himself or herself in any public place, street, highway, Court, or passage, to beg, or gather alms, or procuring children so to do, see Mathers v. Penfold, (1915) 1 KB 514. (6) Every person relieved,
Eleemosynary corporations
Eleemosynary corporations, corporate bodies con-stituted for the perpetual distribution of the free alms or bounty of the founder of them. Of this kind are all hospitals for the maintenance of the
Deodand
any reasonable creature; it was forfeited to the Crown to be applied to pious uses and distributed in alms by the high almoner; but the right to deodands had been for the most part granted out to
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