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Bastard
Bastard [fornication], one born not of lawful marriage. [(English) Age of Marriage Act, 1929 (19 & 20 Geo. 5, c. 36)] The civil and canon laws did not allow a child to remain a bastard if...
Asylums Board
Asylums Board. The Metropolitan Asylums Board, constituted under the (English) Metropolitan Poor Act, 1867, dealt with the administration relating to cases of insanity (inter alia) among the poor in London. The Lancashire Asylums Board, established by...
Assessment Committee
Assessment Committee. This is a statutory committee for the purpose of making out the valuation list on which the poor rate is based. See VALUATION LIST and POOR LAWS. The committee is appointed and acts by...
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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...
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.
Bastardy-bonds
Bastardy-bonds, to indemnify parishes as to natural children likely to be born, made void by the (English) Poor Law Amendment Act,1834 (4 & 5 Wm. 4, c. 76), s. 70. [(English) Repealed by Statute Law Revision...
Family
Family, in relation to a person, includes the ascend-ant and descendant of such person. [Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976 (19 of 1976), s. 2(h)]. A group consisting of parents and their children; a group of...
Faqueer, or fakir
Faqueer, or fakir, a poor man, mendicant; a religious beggar, Indian.
First fruits
First fruits, an incident to the old feudal tenures, being one year's profits of the land after the death of a tenant, which belonged to the king. Hence arose the claim of the head of the...
Gleaning, Leasing, or Lesing
Gleaning, Leasing, or Lesing. No right exists at Common Law for the poor to enter on a person's land and glean after harvest, Steel v. Houghton, (1788) 1 HBl 51
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