Pauper - Law Dictionary Search Results
Poorhouse
A dwelling for a number of paupers maintained at public expense an almshouse a workhouse
Skilligalee
A kind of thin weak broth or oatmeal porridge served out to prisoners and paupers in England also a drink made of oatmeal sugar and water sometimes used in the English navy or
Certiorari
Court of justice in criminal causes, all indictments, coroners' inquisitions, summary convictions by magistrates, orders of removal of paupers, and of poor's rates, also orders made by commissioners of sewers and other commissioners, town councils, and railway
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House of correction
Correction, fist established in the reign of Elizabeth, were originally designed for the penal confinement (after conviction) of paupers and vagrants refusing to work; but by 5 & 6 Wm. 4, c. 38, ss. 3, 4, reciting
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