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Casual pauper
Casual pauper (obsolete term). Any destitute wayfarer or wanderer applying for or receiving 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 These (English) Acts were repealed and replaced by the Poor Law Act, 1927 (17 & 18 Geo. 5, c. 14), which was further consolidated by the Poor Law Act, 1930 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 17); and the term used is 'Casual Poor Person' or 'Casual Poor.' The (English) Poor Law Act, 1930 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 17), ss. 41 to 44, deals with provisions of casual wards and treatment of casual poor....
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 Court fees, solicitor, or counsel, see IN FORM' PAUPERIS.Pauper, is a person who is not possessed of sufficient means to enable him to pay the fee prescribed by the law for the plaint in such a suit or where no such fee is prescribed, when he is not entitled to property worth one hundred rupees other than the necessary wearing apparel and the subject-matter of the suit, Code of Civil Procedure Code, O. 33, r. 1....
Workhouses
Workhouses, municipal institutions for the support and maintenance of 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 NATIONAL INSURANCE, and in respect of old age and contributory pensions, see PENSIONS.A jail for criminals who have committed minor offenses and are serving short sentences, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1600....
Allotments
Allotments. Many (English) Acts (see chit. Stat., tit. 'Allotments') have been passed authorizing parish officers to let out to poor persons small quantities of parish land or land originally allotted under inclosure Acts for the benefit of the poor. The Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1908 (Part II.), empowers parish, urban, borough or county councils to provide plots of land for persons belonging to the labouring population of the locality to cultivate as farms or gardens. Land for allotments may be acquired compulsorily by the above bodies (ss. 12 and 27, Land Settlement (Facilities) Act, 1919) (as amended by the 1925 Act, s. 1). This Act as amended by the Allotments Act, 1922, necessitates a six months' or longer notice to quit (but see s. 30(2) of the Act, 1908, and s. 1 of the Act of 1922), and provides, notwithstanding any agreement to the contrary, for compensation to an outgoing tenant by the landlord for growing crops, manure, improvement, etc. (s. 47 of the Act of 1908, a...
Sessions of the peace
Sessions of the peace, sittings of justices of the peace for the execution of those powers which are confided to them by their commission, or by charter, and by numerous statutes. They are of three descriptions:-I. Petty Sessions.--Metropolitan Police magistrates can act alone (see that title), with that exception, every meeting of two or more justices in the same place, for the execution of some power vested in them by law, whether had on their own mere motion, or on the requisition of any party entitled to require their attendance in discharge of some duty, is a petty or petit session. The occasions for holding petty sessions are very numerous, amongst the most important of which is the bailing persons accused of felony, which may be done after a full hearing of evidence on both sides, where the presumption of guilt shall either be weak in itself, or weakened by the proofs adduced on behalf of the prisoner. See PETTY SESSIONS.As to right of the public to attend petty sessions, see OP...
Irremovability, status of
Irremovability, status of, of poor persons, by one year's residence, under (English) Poor Law Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 17), s. 93. See STATUS OF IRREMOVABILITY....
Status of Irremovability
Status of Irremovability, the right formerly ac-quired by a poor person under the (English) Union Chargeability Act, 1865, s. 8, after one year's residence (altered from the three years of an Act of 1861 by the Act of 1865, having been first fixed at five years by an Act of 1846) in any parish, not to be removed therefrom; for the present law see (English) Poor Law Act, 1930 (20 Geo. 5, c. 17), s. 93....
Reception order
Reception order. No person, not being a a rate-aided poor person or a person of unsound mind so found by inquisition, can be received or detained as a per-son of unsound mind except under the authority of (1) a reception order, or (2) an urgency order (q.v.), or (3) a summary reception order (q.v.) [(English) Lunacy Act, 1890, ss. 1, 9, 13]. Ss. 21 and 22 provide exceptions in the case of emergency, etc., and of friends and relatives taking charge. A reception order can only be made by a judicial authority, i.e., a justice of the peace specially appointed, a county court judge, a stipendiary magistrate, or by two commissioners in lunacy (ibid., ss. 1, 9, 10 and 23). It is only effective for one year unless extended [(English) Lunacy Act, 1891, s. 7), and by s. 36 (3) of the Act, 1890, it ceases to be of any force unless the patient has been received thereunder before the expiration of seven days from its date. As to the reception of feebleminded and mentally defective persons, see the ...
Lodging houses, common
Lodging houses, common. The term is defined in the (English) Public Health Act, 1936, s. 235, as 'meaning a house (other than a public assistance institution), provided for the purpose of accommodating by night poor persons, not being members of the same family, who resort thereto and are allowed to occupy one common room for the purpose of sleeping or eating, and include, where part only of a house is so used, the part so used.' As to the test of sleeping and having meals in a common room, see the judgment of Cozens-Hardy, L.J., in this case, and Longdon v. Broadbent, (1877) 37 LT 434. As to this use by persons of the poorer classes, see also L.C.C. v. Hankins, (1914) 1 KB 490. The Public Health Act, 1875, ss. 76 et seq., provided for their might be kept only by registered keepers. These provisions were amplified and rendered more stringent by Part V. of the (English) Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 53). Both these enactments are repealed and replaced by Part IX. ...
Assize, or assise
Assize, or assise [fr. assideo, Lat., to sit together; whence assire, O. Fr., to set, assis, set, seated, sealed], anciently a statute or ordinance, e.g., Assize of Clarendon; also a jury, who sit together for the purpose of trying a cause, or rather a Court of jurisdiction which summons jury by a commission of assize to take the assizes. Hence the judicial assemblies, held by the king's commission in every county as well to take indictments as to try causes at Nisi Prius, are commonly termed the assizes. There are two commissions. (I.) General, which is issued twice a year to the judges being usually assigned to every circuit. See CIRCUITS. The judges have four several commissions: (1) of oyer and terminer, directed to them and many other gentlemen of the county, by which they are empowered to try treasons, felonies, etc. This is the largest commission. (2) Of gaol delivery, directed to the judges and the clerk of assize or associate, empowering them to try every prisoner in the gaol ...
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