Similar words: moorland, poorly, poor, spoor, for lack of, poor man, poorhouse, poorness. Meaning: n. a law providing support for the poor.
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1 Hence the Poor Law remained substantially unreformed by 1914.
2 Others were established under the Poor Law.
3 Poor Law administrators in practice operated with considerably varying degrees of harshness or generosity.
4 Historians of the Poor Law have discerned a more sympathetic attitude towards the settled poor and even in respect of removal proceedings.
5 Their legacy from the poor law was a stock of homes, for the elderly and disabled, that were ex-workhouses.
6 But until the poor Law was abolished finally in 1948,[www.Sentencedict.com] the principle of financial support between-kin applied more broadly.
7 The Poor Law was facing criticism from a range of sources.
8 Free treatment through the Poor Law was still avoided by the poor wherever possible.
9 In that sense, the poor Law was a mechanism whereby one class imposed a particular view of family responsibility upon another.
10 With the passage of the Poor Law Amendment Act in 1834 the condition of labourers deteriorated still further.
11 In 1904 they opened the first Poor Law farm colony, in Essex, to provide work training for the unemployed.
12 The government was persistently unwilling to amend Poor Law principles to take account of the mounting evidence of extensive involuntary unemployment.
13 So effective was hegemony around the poor law that it continued throughout the preindustrial period and the period of rapid growth.
14 Caused by poor law and order.
15 It threw too many respectable people on to the Poor Law and caused the loss of many working days.
16 The strict out-door relief policy of the 1870s did not lead to a fall in total Poor Law expenditure.
17 The smith was invoking the part of the Elizabethan Poor Law which required the parish to assist the able-bodied to work.
18 An obsession with cutting costs and with theories of self-help has downgraded public services and re-evoked images of the poor law.
19 The Reports were published amidst a general expectation among informed opinion that the Poor Law would indeed be reformed or abolished.
20 But the most concerted challenge was manifest in struggles waged by the unemployed around the poor law.
21 Some attributed the growth to the democratization of the Poor Law franchise in 1894.
22 There is a high level of consensus among historians of the eighteenth-century Poor Law that relief in general was neither ungenerous nor ineffective.
23 This division to some degree reflected the pre-existing division of opinion on the Poor Law and its desirable replacement.
24 Both reports condemned the existing system and recommended the end of a separate Poor Law.
25 It also risked acquiring the stigma attached to the means-tested Poor Law.
26 But this activity was less influential than the rumours which began to circulate about the New Poor Law.
27 The term social legislation appeared firstly in Germany, its origin can be traced back to the British Poor Law, labor legislation and the German social insurance legislation.
28 I know that some countries, I will not go, such as France, because of poor law and order, as despicable, shameless, because there is very dirty.
29 Pioneer , who lives in the camp for the elderly poor law Chen take the same view.
30 There was widespread dissatisfaction with the Reform Act of 1832 and the New Poor Law.
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