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Definition of Overseers
1. overseer [n] - See also: overseer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overseers
Literary usage of Overseers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Exchequer and by Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Roger Meeson, William Newland Welsby, John Innes Clark Hare, Horace Binney Wallace, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber (1849)
"704 Vesting of Lease in Overseers—Averment of Seisin—Express Colour."]— 4.
Trespass for breaking and entering a dwelling-house of the plaintiff and evicting ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Edward Hyde East, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"There a certificate had been signed by two churchwardens and four overseers of W.
; but the case staled, that it had been usual to appoint four ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Queen's Bench, and by Thomas Flower Ellis, Francis Ellis, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber (1867)
"The churchwardens and overseers of M. immediately took possession of the land
the subject of the grant, and built on it a workhouse which, up to Midsummer, ..."
4. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"2 (Poor Relief, 1601), overseers of the poor were appointed in every parish.
§ 493. a. Appointment of overseers of the poor.—By virtue of the statute last ..."
5. Commentaries on the Law of Public Corporations, Including Municipal by Charles Fisk Beach (1893)
"Towns in Maine have the discretionary power to choose any number of overseers
trustee were limited in such counties as had poor-houses to relieving paupers ..."
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