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Definition of Poor person

1. Noun. A person with few or no possessions.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Poor Person

Literary usage of Poor person

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... condition," proposed to abolish all settlements and receive every poor person that applied to incorporated societies or ' ' fathers of the poor. ..."

2. Report of the Committee on Inquiry Into the Departments of Health, Charities by New York (N.Y.). Board of estimate and apportionment. Committee on inquiry into the Departments of health, charities, and Bellevue and allied hospitals, George McAneny, Henry Collier Wright (1913)
"(b) Non-Residents of New York City The basis of deciding upon what officials falls the responsibility for the maintenance of a poor person is the settlement ..."

3. The Parliamentary Debatesby Great Britain Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard by Great Britain Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard (1824)
"That it is not expedient that any poor Person or Persons should be removed from any Parish, Township or Place, (by reason of such poor Person or Person« ..."

4. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1914)
"poor person Code, § 2252, provides that the words "poor person," as used in the chapter relating to the relief of such persons by the township, ..."

5. The Statutes of Ohio and of the Northwestern Territory, Adopted Or Enacted by Ohio, Salmon Portland Chase, Northwest Territory (1833)
"... said overseers shall enter in their books, or relieve, any such poor person or 2, ... poor person ..."

6. The New-York Legal Observer by Samuel Owen (1845)
"Where there is a relative of a poor person' of sufficient ability to support such poor person, it is not necessary that the superintendent of the poor ..."

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