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Jukes The

of the inheritance of criminal and immoral tendencies disease and pauperism Sixty per cent of those traced showed degeneracy and they

Contributory

A shareholder may sometimes avoid liability by transfer to a pauper. See Re Discoveries Finance Corporation, (1910) 1 Ch 312, but

Official solicitor

for contempt, and he may be assigned as solicitor to pauper litigants, and acts as guardian ad litem to persons under

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Nosocomi

Nosocomi, managers of pauper hospitals, Civ. Law.

Husband and wife

however, can only be made to the wife as a pauper; and a more liberal scale, which may rise as high

House of correction

were originally designed for the penal confinement (after conviction) of paupers and vagrants refusing to work; but by 5 & 6

Bluegown

One of a class of paupers or pensioners or licensed beggars in Scotland to whim annually

Certiorari

coroners' inquisitions, summary convictions by magistrates, orders of removal of paupers, and of poor's rates, also orders made by commissioners of

Skilligalee

weak broth or oatmeal porridge served out to prisoners and paupers in England also a drink made of oatmeal sugar and

Poorhouse

A dwelling for a number of paupers maintained at public expense an almshouse a workhouse

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