Casual Poor
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In English law
Those who are not settled in a parish. Such poor persons as are suddenly taken sick, or meet wilh some accident, when away from home, and who are thus providentially thrown upon the charities of those among whom they happen to be. 17 N, J. Law, 405, to a superior, that is, from a tenant to his lord, which arise upon uncertain events, as opposed to the payment ofrent at fixed and stated times.
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