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Judge
Judge [fr. juge, Fr.; judex, Lat.], one invested with authority to determine any cause or question in a Court of judicature. The word 'judge' denotes not only every person who is officially designated as a judge...
Hospitals
Hospitals, eleemosynary corporations. They are either aggregate, in which the master or warden and his brethren have the estate of inheritance; or sole, in which the master, etc., only has the estate in him, and the...
Indigent defendant
Indigent defendant, means a person who is too poor to hire a lawyer and who, upon indictment, becomes eligible to receive aid from a court appointed attorney and a waiver of court costs, Black's Law Dictionary,...
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Infirmity
Infirmity, means physical weakness caused by age or disease; esp., in insurance law, an applicant's ill health that is poor enough to deter an insurance company from insuring the applicant, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p....
Eleemosynary corporations
Eleemosynary corporations, corporate bodies con-stituted for the perpetual distribution of the free alms or bounty of the founder of them. Of this kind are all hospitals for the maintenance of the poor, sick, and impotent, and...
Jury
Jury [fr. jurata, Lat.; jure, Fr.], a number of persons sworn to deliver a verdict upon evidence delivered to them touching the issue. Trial by jury may be traced to the earliest Anglo-Saxon times. One of...
Ex officio
Ex officio (officially; by virtue of office); e.g., justices of the peace were ex officio guardians of the poor. An ex officio appointment that the appointment is by virtue of the office; without any other warrant...
County Councils
County Councils. The elective bodies established by the Local Government Act, 1888 (c. 41), to manage certain specified administrative business of each county (see LOCAL GOVERNMENT), formerly managed by the justices of the peace (who are...
Eleemosynaria
Eleemosynaria, the place in a religious house where the common alms were deposited, and thence by the almoner distributed to the poor.
Eleemosyna regis, and eleemosyna aratri, or carucarum
Eleemosyna regis, and eleemosyna aratri, or carucarum, a penny which King Ethelred ordered to be paid for every plough in England towards the support of the poor, Leg. Ethel. c. i.
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