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of an estoppel [see Poor Law Act, 1930 (20 Geo. 5, c. 17), Part III.]. See DERIVATIVE SETTLEMENT; POOR LAWS; and Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Poor (Settlement and Removal).' Means settling the property, right or claim-convey-ance or disposition of

Guardians of the poor

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Union of parishes for the purpose of administering the laws for the relief of the poor

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Casual pauper

relief. See (English) Pauper Inmates Discharge and Regulation Act, 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c.108), and (English) Casual Poor Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 36). These (English) Acts were repealed and replaced by the Poor

Husband and wife

by his order'her covertures is no excuse. As to maintenance of the wife by the husband under the Poor Law, by 5 Geo. 1, c. 8, a husband running away and leaving wife or children chargeable to

Parish Apprentices

Parish Apprentices, persons who were bound out by the overseers of parishes, or by the guardians of the poor. The children of poor persons could be apprenticed out by the overseers, with consent of two justices, and

Sturges Bourne's Acts

portion of the Act, being superseded by the Poor Law Amendment Act, 1834, is repealed by the Statute Laws Revision Act, 1873). See now Poor Law Act, 1930, and POOR LAW. … Government Act, 1894), preservation of parish books and other matters; and (2) 59 Geo. 3, c. 12, the Poor Relief Act, 1819 (Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Poor'), by which the inhabitants of any parish, in vestry assembled, were

Vagrants

Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1912, s. 7, as to men living on earnings of prostitution; and by (English) Poor Law Act, 1930, s. 150, as to obtaining relief by falsehood. It points out three classes of persons:-

Rate

trade is expressly excepted by the temporary (English) Poor Rate Exemption Act, 1840, made permanent by the Expiring Laws Act, 1922. The multiplicity of rates leviable by public bodies for public purposes was simplified by the (English) … 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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