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Land-poor

Land-poor, means owning a substantial amount of unprofitable or encumbered land, but lacking the money to improve or maintain the...

Act, 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c.108), and (English) Casual Poor Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 36). These (English)

distribution-, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1377. (In the Poor Law), the fixture of a person on becoming a poor

the overseers of parishes, or by the guardians of the poor. The children of poor persons could be apprenticed out by

other matters; and (2) 59 Geo. 3, c. 12, the Poor Relief Act, 1819 (Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Poor'), by which the

in its more restricted and common sense, relief to the poor. In English law it means a general public use, Commissioners

by some public body for a public purpose, as a poor rate, a highway rate, a sewers rate, upon, as a

to men living on earnings of prostitution; and by (English) Poor Law Act, 1930, s. 150, as to obtaining relief by

Charitable purpose, includes relief of the poor, education, medical relief and the advancement of any other object

to maintenance of the wife by the husband under the Poor Law, by 5 Geo. 1, c. 8, a husband running