How To Use poor law In A Sentence
- Some attributed the growth to the democratization of the Poor Law franchise in 1894.
- Veterans denied a pension and incapable of supporting themselves might seek charity under the provisions of the Poor Laws.
- [Page 156] the poorhouse, the result of centuries of deterrent Poor Law administration, seemed to me not without some justification one summer when I found myself perpetually distressed by the unnecessary idleness and forlornness of the old women in the Cook County Infirmary, many of whom I had known in the years when activity was still a necessity, and when they yet felt bustlingly important. Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes
- Dickens's rage against the New Poor Law, which precluded able-bodied paupers from relief, is underplayed.
- The smith was invoking the part of the Elizabethan Poor Law which required the parish to assist the able-bodied to work.
- His influence on both reports was very great and he was appointed secretary to the Poor Law Commission in 1834, a post which brought him savage criticism.
- Especially from mid-century, large landowners, ‘heritors’, were given special powers under Scots poor laws; this too may have helped to ensure stringency.
- But there's poor lawyering, overzealous prosecutors, tunnel vision for investigators.
- And this is a question which demands immediate attention -- _immediate_ attention; for more than £26,000,000 are paid by taxpayers each year to be spent in great part on our wretched system of poor laws. Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman
- But until the poor Law was abolished finally in 1948, the principle of financial support between-kin applied more broadly.
