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Casual poor

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Black's (1910), Black's (1891)

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In English law. Those who are not settled in a parish. Such poor persons as are suddenly taken sick, or meet with some accident, when away from home, and who are thus providentially thrown upon the charities of those among whom they happen to be. Force v. Haines, 17 N. J. Law, 405.

Defined under Casual in Black's Law Dictionary.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

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. Bell,