Alms Houses - Law Dictionary Search Results
Alms-houses
Alms-houses. Houses given by charitable persons for poor persons to live
Gerontocomium
Gk., an old man, and to take care of], an alms-house for old people. Their managers are called gerontocomi.
Contra formam collationis
collationis, a writ that issued where lands given in perpetual alms to any late houses of religion, as to an abbot
Aumone, tenure in
Aumone, tenure in, where lands are given in alms to some church or religious house, upon condition that a … lands are given in alms to some church or religious house, upon condition that a service or prayers shall be offered
Cessavit
of performing some certain spiritual services, as reading prayers, giving alms, etc., and neglected it; in either of which cases, if … his services for two years together, or where a religious house had lands given to it, on condition of performing some
Eleemosynaria
Eleemosynaria, the place in a religious house where the common alms were deposited, and thence by the almoner distributed to the … Eleemosynaria, the place in a religious house where the common alms were deposited, and thence by the
Tenure
were continued under the Normans, are these: (1) Frankalmoigne [free alms], by which religious corporations and their successors held lands of … in burgage [burgus, Lat.] (now abolished, see infra) is where houses, or lands which were formerly the site of houses, in
Vagrants
place, street, highway, Court, or passage, to beg, or gather alms, or procuring children so to do, see Mathers v. Penfold, … peace may commit them (being convicted before him) to the house of correction to hard labour for not more than one
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