Workhouse - Law Dictionary Search Results
Workhouses
Workhouses, municipal institutions for the support and maintenance of poor persons.
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Bridewell
or Bridgets well in London which was subsequently a penal workhouse
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Poorhouse
number of paupers maintained at public expense an almshouse a workhouse
Adoption
of guardians, to be permitted to adopt children from the workhouse whose parents are unknown. Though there is no legal objection
Poor laws
an order may be made for his removal to the workhouse immediately on his discharge from prison. [(English) Poor Law Act,
School
suitable for blind, deaf, defective or epileptic children, a certified workhouse school, a Scottish public or State-aided elementary school, a national
Vagrants
(1915) 1 KB 514. (6) Every person relieved, in a workhouse, and refusing or neglecting while therein to perform the task
Public Works Loans Act, 1875 (English)
or carried on by a sanitary or other local authority; workhouses or poor-houses, and any work for which the council of
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