Examples of 'poor law' in a sentence
Meaning of "poor law"
poor law: a historical British system for providing relief and assistance to the poor, typically enforced through legislation or regulations
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- A law providing for the support of paupers at the public expense.
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The treadmill and the poor law.
Of special concern is poor law enforcement in cases of trafficking.
You are a victim of the poor law.
Local taxation and poor law administration in great cities.
Poor law enforcement.
The workhouse was a poor law institution.
The poor law guardians.
Deforestation and illegal logging persist owing to poor law enforcement.
Poor law district.
Topic poor law.
Poor law hospital.
It would be the first considerable national example of poor law enforcement.
Please save the poor law students and let us copy these.
The districts were based on the recently introduced poor law unions.
Political instability has bred poor law enforcement and deforestation rates have been on the rise.
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A lack of resources and political will frequently results in poor law enforcement.
It is in the poor law union of Oughterard in the barony of Moycullen.
English poor law.
A parish large enough to operate independently of a union was known as a poor law parish.
Objections were made to the election of poor law guardians who were not ratepayers.
But in the sense that it diminished the expenses of the poor law.
During his tenure in this office he notably carried a poor law amendment bill through parliament.
A State bedevilled by poor law enforcement mechanisms is prone to manipulation and corruption.
Three points remain to be touched on in connection with the Elizabethan poor law.
A combination of poverty and poor law enforcement can be a problem in the city of Kukës.
Florence Nightingale helped him formulate the reform of nursing within the poor law.
The Poor Law system began to decline with the availability of other forms of assistance.
This was a continuation of the role local government had held under the Poor Law.
I understood why the Poor Law was so hated.
They had a dual nature and acquired civil duties such as the administering the Poor Law.
It was in the Poor law union of Urlingford.
Poor law enforcement in India.
Its definition came about as a result of the Poor Law.
He was an efficient administrator abolishing the Poor Law and reorganizing unemployment assistance.
Several amending pieces of legislation can be considered part of the Old Poor Law.
From the point of view of Poor Law administration Speenhamland was a grievously retrogressive step.
This connects with the Victorian Era poor law policy.
See List of poor law unions in England.
All mixed up with the Poor Law.
Poor law in England and Wales.
They are victims of the Poor Law.
Poor Law parish.
It replaced earlier provisions under the Poor Law.
Origins of the Poor Law system.
Poor law in England.
The effects of the Poor Law.
The Poor Law Commissioners were to be responsible for overseeing the implementation of the Act.
Thomas Malthus was the leading intellectual critic of the Poor Law system.
The Tendring Poor Law Union covered the same area as the present district.
Outdoor relief was also a feature of the Scottish and Irish Poor Law systems.
