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Removal of poor person
Removal of poor person. See SETTLEMENT.
Land-poor
Land-poor, means owning a substantial amount of unprofitable or encumbered land, but lacking the money to improve or maintain the land or to pay the charges due on it, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 883.
Poor will
A bird of the Western United States Phalaelignoptilus Nutalli allied to the whip poor will
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Overseers of the poor
Overseers of the poor (now abolished by (English) Rating and Valuation Act, 1925 (c. 90), ss. 1, 64), formerly public officers created by the (English) Poor Relief Act, 1601 (43 Eliz. c. 2), to provide for...
Guardians of the poor
Guardians of the poor. Their powers have been transferred to the councils of the counties and county boroughs, who are now the poor law authorities; see the (English) Local Government Act, 1929 (c. 17), s. 1,...
Union of parishes for the purpose of administering the laws for the relief of the poor
Union of parishes for the purpose of administering the laws for the relief of the poor, first effected under 22 Geo. 3, c. 83 ('Gilbert's Act'), and after-wards under the (English) Poor Law Amendment Act, 1834....
Misthrive
To thrive poorly to be not thrifty or prosperous
bungled
performed poorly or inadequately as a bungled job the Watergate scandal started with a bungled burglary
half baked
Insufficiently or poorly planned or thought out impractical or unrealistic as a half baked proposal half baked ideas of plans theories
ill fitting
Fitting poorly not the proper size and cut of clothing
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