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Rate

Rate, A contribution levied by some public body for a public purpose, as a poor rate, a highway rate, a sewers rate, upon, as a general rule, the occupiers of property within a

Meanness

The condition or quality of being mean want of excellence poorness lowness baseness sordidness stinginess

Vagrants

Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1912, s. 7, as to men living on earnings of prostitution; and by (English) Poor Law Act, 1930, s. 150, as to obtaining relief by falsehood. It points out three classes of persons:-

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Charitable purpose

Charitable purpose, includes relief of the poor, education, medical relief and the advancement of any other object of general public utility, but does not include

Husband and wife

by his order'her covertures is no excuse. As to maintenance of the wife by the husband under the Poor Law, by 5 Geo. 1, c. 8, a husband running away and leaving wife or children chargeable to

Adoption

See Geary on Marriage and Family Relations, and Law Reform (Misc. Prov.) Act; 1934, s. 2. Adoption of Poor Child.--Sometimes benevolent persons apply to County or Borough Councils, formerly boards of guardians, to be permitted to adopt

Derivative settlement

Derivative settlement, in Poor Law that settlement (see SETTLEMENT) which a poor person may acquire from his parent's settlement. The (English) Poor

In forma pauperis

In forma pauperis (in the character of a pauper). Every poor person, having cause of action, was entitled by 11 Hen. 7, c. 12, which is in affirmance of

Local Government

conducted the bodies appointed or elected to conduct it within limited areas, as parishes, boroughs, local government districts, poor law unions, petty sessional districts, county boroughs, and counties. See these titles respectively, and COUNTY COUNCIL; DISTRICT COUNCIL;

Pauper

Pauper, a discarded term, see POOR PERSON. See CASUAL PAUPER; POOR LAWS; and EDUCA-TION. As to right of a poor person, having reasonable ground

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