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Land-poor
Matched in: Term Land-poor
Land poor
Matched in: Term Land poor
Rate
coal mines, or saleable underwoods,' and the (English) Rating Act, 1874, extended the liability to rates to: (1) land used for a plantation or a wood, or for the growth of saleable underwood, and not subject to … Rate, A contribution levied by some public body for a public purpose, as a poor rate, a highway rate, a sewers rate, upon, as a general rule, the occupiers of property within a
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Occupier
or having a right to reside in or upon any house, land, or place; formerly rateable to the poor rate under the Poor Relief Act, 1601, 43 Eliz. c. 2, and as 'inhabitant occupier' and entitled to … or is liable to pay to the owner the rent or any portion of the rent of the land or building in respect of which such rent is paid or is payable. (ii) an owner in occupation
Allotments
tit. 'Allotments') have been passed authorizing parish officers to let out to poor persons small quantities of parish land or land originally allotted under inclosure Acts for the benefit of the poor. The Small Holdings and Allotments
Hospitals
of 'the maimed, poor, needy, or impotent people'; but no such hospital may be erected unless endowed with lands or hereditaments of the yearly value of 20l. For power of local authorities to provide hospitals for their
Rich
Having an abundance of material possessions possessed of a large amount of property well supplied with land goods or money wealthy opulent affluent opposed to poor
Gleaning, Leasing, or Lesing
Gleaning, Leasing, or Lesing. No right exists at Common Law for the poor to enter on a person's land and glean after harvest, Steel v. Houghton, (1788) 1 HBl 51
Poor laws
Matched in: Term Poor laws
Contra formam collationis
abbot and convent, or to the warden or master of any hospital and his convent, to find certain poor men with necessaries, and do divine service, etc., were alienated, to the disherison of the house and church. … Contra formam collationis, a writ that issued where lands given in perpetual alms to any late houses of religion, as to an abbot and convent, or to
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