poor law

He was commissioner to inquire into operation of the poor law from 1631 to 1633.

The poor law, on the other hand, had been changed but little.

By 1948, when it was finally killed, the poor law was all but dead already.

Most significant were those around the operation of the poor law.

Further American criticism is based on the idea that it is poor law.

After 1870, for the first time he directly discussed practical questions, writing on poor laws and economics.

He suggests the nation should "quietly provide" for the poor through a container-deposit law.

The divorce law and the poor law come in for little of his attention.

For example, parishes carried out the duties required by the poor law.

The first changes concerned the administration of the poor law, which was carried at parish level.