Poor Will - Law Dictionary Search Results

In forma pauperis (in the character of a pauper). Every poor person, having cause of action, was entitled by 11 Hen. 7, c. 12, which is in affirmance of … in special circumstances may direct. In London and the District Registries lists are kept of counsel and solicitors willing to undertake conduct of actions on behalf of poor persons without remuneration. Order 33 is intended to enable

Maintenance

which he has any interest, actual or contingent; and also a suit of his near kinsman, servant, or poor neighbour, out of charity and compassion, with impunity, Bac. Abr., tit. 'Maintenance.' Further, any legitimate common interest will

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Caprimulgidae

a widely distributed natural family of nocturnally active birds including the whip poor will Caprimulgus vociferus the chuck wills widow Caprimulgus carolinensis and the common nighthawk Chordeiles minor called popularly the goatsuckers

Caprimulgus

the type genus of the Caprimulgidae including the whip poor will Caprimulgus vociferus and the chuck wills widow Caprimulgus carolinensis

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, … compelled a distribution, it is not impossible that the same favour should have been extended to charity in wills, which by their own force purported to authorize such a distribution. Charity (as Sir William Grant has justly

Rate

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 … special rate in rural districts for lighting under the (English) Lighting and Watching Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4, c. 90), the (English) Local Government Act, 1894 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 73), or special expenses

Hospitals

by deed enrolled in Chancery, erect and found a hospital for the sustenance and relief of 'the maimed, poor, needy, or impotent people'; but no such hospital may be erected unless endowed with lands or hereditaments of … Part VI. Of the Public Health Act, 1936; see ss. 181-186. In general the governors of a hospital will not be liable for negligent medical treatment by the staff employed, Hillyer v. St. Bartholomew's Hospital, (1909) 2

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 … enables bastards or natural children domiciled in Scotland to dispose of their movable estates by testament or last will in like manner as other persons belonging to that country may do. In England they have always had

Settlement

receive as heirs under statutes of descent and distribution-, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1377. (In the Poor Law), the fixture of a person on becoming a poor person in a particular parish, to which is … the conciliation officer. [Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (14 of 1947), s. 2(p)] Means an instrument (other than a will or codicil) as defined by the Indian Succession Act, 1925 where-by the destination or devolution of successive interests

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