Poor Laws - Law Dictionary Search Results
County Councils
(Local Authrities) Act, 1931 (c. 6); (English) Roads Act, 1920; Mental Deficiency Act, 1913 (c. 28); and (English) Poor Law Acts.
Boundaries
of so adjusting the boundaries of counties and other areas of local government as to arrange that no poor law union, municipal borough, sanitary district, or parish should be situate in more than one county; and various
Board
Local Government Board; or elected for the purposes of local government, as a Board of Guardians under the Poor Law Acts, a Local Board under the Public Health Acts; or elected as directors by the shareholders in
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Area
a parliamentary electoral area, a local government district (see Part viii of the Public Health Act, 1875), a Poor Law Union of parishes, as to which, see UNION; (3) Metaphor, the region of discussion; (4) In the
Gleaning, Leasing, or Lesing
Gleaning, Leasing, or Lesing. No right exists at Common Law for the poor to enter on a person's land and glean after harvest, Steel v. Houghton, (1788) 1 HBl 51
assigned risk
assigned risk : a poor risk (as an accident-prone driver) that insurance companies would normally reject but are forced to insure by state
justiciable
capable of being decided according to legal principles by a court [whether the tax laws unfairly burden the poor is not a issue] ;esp : triable in a court [the claim is not because the plaintiff has
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