How To Use Poor law In A Sentence
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Some attributed the growth to the democratization of the Poor Law franchise in 1894.
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Veterans denied a pension and incapable of supporting themselves might seek charity under the provisions of the Poor Laws.
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[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
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Dickens's rage against the New Poor Law, which precluded able-bodied paupers from relief, is underplayed.
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The smith was invoking the part of the Elizabethan Poor Law which required the parish to assist the able-bodied to work.
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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.
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Especially from mid-century, large landowners, ‘heritors’, were given special powers under Scots poor laws; this too may have helped to ensure stringency.
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But there's poor lawyering, overzealous prosecutors, tunnel vision for investigators.
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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
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But until the poor Law was abolished finally in 1948, the principle of financial support between-kin applied more broadly.
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The smith was invoking the part of the Elizabethan Poor Law which required the parish to assist the able-bodied to work.
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Surrounding the controlling of the poor, there was a great change in Tudor poor laws: punishment gave the way to discriminative almsgiving, poor law gradually became rational.
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In Elizabethan England the poor laws were enacted to control vagrant men who were seen as subversive.
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I shall not myself be so uncandid as not to confess, that I think the poor laws bad things; and that it would be well, if they could be got rid of, consistently with humanity and justice.
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The Elizabethan Poor Law enshrined this right with the practice of sturdy and less sturdy beggars being sent back to their parish of origin ostensibly for help.
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Can we keep in mind that the bar exams, while sold as a remedy and preventitive for poor lawyering, is largely a guild?
Bar Passage Blues
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He said uncooperative building management and poor law enforcement were the main factors causing poor safety standards to continue.
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Some of the children, of course, ended up in state care; particularly after the New Poor Law, the number of illegitimates eligible for outdoor relief fell steadily.
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The promulgators of the 1834 New Poor Law opposed such proposals because they still relied on the state providing men with work or support for children.
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The economic crisis and poor law enforcement are the two main obstacles in his path.
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The digitised records form part of the underused and poorly catalogued 'poor law union correspondence', from the huge Ministry of Health archive held at The National Archives in Kew, covering the period 1834 to 1871.
May 2007
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The government was persistently unwilling to amend Poor Law principles to take account of the mounting evidence of extensive involuntary unemployment.
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Poor Law administrators in practice operated with considerably varying degrees of harshness or generosity.
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The overarching vision of a totally deterrent New Poor Law where relief would only be administered in the workhouse clashed with local parish budgets and the reality of the family wage economy.
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We note that in The Parish of St Pancras case an attorney's clerk, articled by indenture, was held to be an apprentice and to gain a settlement as such for poor law purposes.
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But this activity was less influential than the rumours which began to circulate about the New Poor Law.
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The poor lawyers want a little rise in their daily fee.
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As Professor Moeen Cheema notes, these young, part-time and often poor lawyer-foot soldiers that made up the bulk of Pakistan's legal establishment, "barely eke out a decent living from legal practice ... and enrollment in the bar is a part-time venture for them that provides a status of respectability rather than living wages.
Ehsan Zaffar: Amid a Turbulent Year, a Rare Sign of Hope in Pakistan
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The smith was invoking the part of the Elizabethan Poor Law which required the parish to assist the able-bodied to work.
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Their legacy from the poor law was a stock of homes, for the elderly and disabled, that were ex-workhouses.
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The Reports were published amidst a general expectation among informed opinion that the Poor Law would indeed be reformed or abolished.
