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Poraille

Poor people the poor

Asylums Board

Board. The Metropolitan Asylums Board, constituted under the (English) Metropolitan Poor Act, 1867, dealt with the administration relating to cases of

Churchwardens

Steer's Parish Law. Churchwardens were ex officio overseers of the poor under the Poor Relief Act, 1601 (43 Eliz. c. 2),

Costs

Justice Administration Act, 1914 (c. 58), s. 10(4), and the Poor Prisoners Defence Act, 1930 (c. 32), now contains all the

Bastard

a bastard child up to the age of sixteen (English) Poor Law Act, 1930 (c. 17), but see AFFILIATION. The father

Eleemosynaria

were deposited, and thence by the almoner distributed to the poor.

Contra formam collationis

master of any hospital and his convent, to find certain poor men with necessaries, and do divine service, etc., were alienated,

County Councils

Act, 1920; Mental Deficiency Act, 1913 (c. 28); and (English) Poor Law Acts.

Denarius Dei

contracts, etc., paid in former times to the church or poor.

Electoral franchise

which he had been rated for the relief of the poor and had paid the rate, or who had occupied and

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