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Official solicitor

s. 2, the duty of visiting prisoners committed for contempt, and he may be assigned as solicitor to pauper litigants, and acts as guardian ad litem to persons under a disability. Subject to an order to the

In forma pauperis

In forma pauperis (in the character of a pauper). Every poor person, having cause of action, was entitled by 11 Hen.

Husband and wife

justices to be proper. Payments under this Act, however, can only be made to the wife as a pauper; and a more liberal scale, which may rise as high as 2l. per week, may be given by

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Contributory

and who are liable in a secondary degree. A shareholder may sometimes avoid liability by transfer to a pauper. See Re Discoveries Finance Corporation, (1910) 1 Ch 312, but see Hyam's Case, (1859) 1 De 9 F&J

Pauperism

The state of being a pauper the state of indigent persons requiring support from the community

Dispauper

To deprive of the claim of a pauper to public support to deprive of the privilege of suing in forma pauperis

in forma pauperis

in forma pauperis [Medieval Latin, in the form of a pauper] : as a poor person : relieved of the fees

Bluegown

One of a class of paupers or pensioners or licensed beggars in Scotland to whim annually on the kings birthday were distributed certain alms

Depauperize

To free from paupers to rescue from poverty

Jukes The

investigated by R L Dugdale as an example of the inheritance of criminal and immoral tendencies disease and pauperism Sixty per cent of those traced showed degeneracy and they are estimated to have cost society 1308000 in

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