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Adoption
See Geary on Marriage and Family Relations, and Law Reform (Misc. Prov.) Act; 1934, s. 2. Adoption of Poor Child.--Sometimes benevolent persons apply to County or Borough Councils, formerly boards of guardians, to be permitted to adopt … Just. Adoption is much practised amongst the Hindus, and in the United States of America there are State laws regulating it, Chamb. Encycl. Except as provided by the (English) Adoption of Children Act, 1926, in English Law
Charities, or Public Trusts
affections men ought to feel towards each other; in its more restricted and common sense, relief to the poor. In English law it means a general public use, Commissioners for Income Tax v. Pemsel, 1891 AC 531,
Overseers of the poor
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Derivative settlement
Derivative settlement, in Poor Law that settlement (see SETTLEMENT) which a poor person may acquire from his parent's settlement. The (English) Poor
Workhouses
poor persons. See (English) Poor Law Act, 1930 (20 Geo. 5, c. 17), ss. 21 to 34; (English) POOR LAWS. As to the position of the in-mates of workhouses under the National Insurance Acts (Health and Unemployment), see
Local Government
conducted the bodies appointed or elected to conduct it within limited areas, as parishes, boroughs, local government districts, poor law unions, petty sessional districts, county boroughs, and counties. See these titles respectively, and COUNTY COUNCIL; DISTRICT COUNCIL;
Bastard
mother, whilst unmarried or a widow, must maintain a bastard child up to the age of sixteen (English) Poor Law Act, 1930 (c. 17), but see AFFILIATION. The father may be compelled to contribute towards the cost … marriage. [(English) Age of Marriage Act, 1929 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 36)] The civil and canon laws did not allow a child to remain a bastard if the parents afterwards intermarried, but a proposal by
Emigration of poor persons
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Pauper
Pauper, a discarded term, see POOR PERSON. See CASUAL PAUPER; POOR LAWS; and EDUCA-TION. As to right of a poor person, having reasonable ground for proceeding, to sue without paying
Poor person
Matched in: Term Poor person
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