Poorness - Law Dictionary Search Results
bungled
performed poorly or inadequately as a bungled job the Watergate scandal started with a bungled burglary
Dull sighted
Having poor eyesight
half baked
Insufficiently or poorly planned or thought out impractical or unrealistic as a half baked proposal half baked ideas of plans theories
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hamming
poor acting by a ham actor see ham
ill fitting
Fitting poorly not the proper size and cut of clothing
Casual pauper
relief. See (English) Pauper Inmates Discharge and Regulation Act, 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c.108), and (English) Casual Poor Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 36). These (English) Acts were repealed and replaced by the Poor
Settlement
receive as heirs under statutes of descent and distribution-, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1377. (In the Poor Law), the fixture of a person on becoming a poor person in a particular parish, to which is
Parish Apprentices
Parish Apprentices, persons who were bound out by the overseers of parishes, or by the guardians of the poor. The children of poor persons could be apprenticed out by the overseers, with consent of two justices, and
Sturges Bourne's Acts
Government Act, 1894), preservation of parish books and other matters; and (2) 59 Geo. 3, c. 12, the Poor Relief Act, 1819 (Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Poor'), by which the inhabitants of any parish, in vestry assembled, were
Charities, or Public Trusts
affections men ought to feel towards each other; in its more restricted and common sense, relief to the poor. In English law it means a general public use, Commissioners for Income Tax v. Pemsel, 1891 AC 531,
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