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Definition of Poor law
1. Noun. A law providing support for the poor.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Poor Law
Literary usage of Poor law
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lancet (1842)
"DEAR SIR,—In my letter of March 12, I gave you some explanations of the medical
order of the poor-law commissioners for the better payment of medical ..."
2. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"On the latter method the work of relief is left to general charity, or to private
person?, or to the poor-law; and the effort is made to help the family to ..."
3. The Law Reports by James Redfoord Bulwer (1872)
"After separate overseers had been appointed in 1842 for the township of Wollaston,
as before mentioned, by an order of the poor law Commissioners, ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1906)
"THE UNEMPLOYED AND THE poor law. 1. Lectures on the Relation between Law and ...
Hitherto the ' experts ' have been apologists for the English poor law, ..."
5. The Contemporary Review (1893)
"poor law REFORM. demand for poor law ... reduced by the existence of poor law,
cannot provide sufficient income to make a man pendent in sickness and old ..."
6. The Law and the Poor by Edward Abbott Parry (1914)
"heaps of poor law dirt that our forefathers have left for us to clear away. ...
It is mournful to read the poor law history of the last eighty years and to ..."
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