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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

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

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

Poraille

Poor people the poor

Land poor

Pecuniarily embarrassed through owning much unprofitable land

Azaldus

Azaldus, a poor horse or jade, Cowel.

Slipslop

Weak poor or flat liquor weak profitless discourse or writing

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