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Definition of Poor rates
1. Noun. A local tax for the relief of the poor.
Generic synonyms: Rates
Lexicographical Neighbors of Poor Rates
Literary usage of Poor rates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles of political economy and taxation by David Ricardo (1919)
"The poor rates are professed to be levied on the farmer in proportion to his rent;
... If this were true, poor rates, as far as they are paid by the ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1828)
"Abolish the poor-rates, and rents generally will soon have nearly their amount
added to them. The owners of lands and buildings buy them with the burden, ..."
3. The Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard (1828)
"There was, no doubt, a class of the public, to whom the prospect of being exempted
from part of the burthen of poor-rates, independently of ..."
4. A History of the English Poor Law: In Connection with the State of the by George Nicholls, Thomas Mackay (1898)
"... and provisions—Rate of wages—Berkshire bread-scale—Increase of poor-rates—State
of the country—Collection of poor-rates—Limit to liability of justices. ..."
5. The Law Reports by James Redfoord Bulwer (1872)
"... of till poor-rates from time to '¡т-line or claimed to be due in respect of
... church-rates and poor-rates as from all or any other rates, assessments, ..."
6. Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution by Thomas Paine (1856)
"The expense, however, the same to the parish from whatever cause it arises.
lo Birmingham the amount of poor-rates is fourteen ..."
7. A Practical Guide to the Quarter Sessions, and Other Sessions of the Peace by William Dickinson, Thomas Noon Talfourd (1829)
"Of the Grounds of Appeal against poor rates, and herein 1. ... Of the Trial of
Appeals against poor rates, and the Judgment of the Session thereon. - 5. ..."
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