Pauper
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
One so poor that he must be supported at the public expense. A person who, being unable to support himself or herself and his or her children, applies to the public authorities for relief, becomes by so doing a pauper.
159 111. 500. 12 Mete. (Mass.) 35; Garland v. Dover, 19 Me. 44; Clinton v. York, 26 Me. 167; Green V. Brookfield, 3 Greenl. 136; East Haddam v. Lyme, 14 Cow. 394; Northfield v. Roxbury, 15 Vt. 622.
PAUPERIES (Lat.) In civU law.
Poverty.
In a technical sense, damnum absque injuria, i. e., a damage done without wrong on the part of the doer; e. g., damage done by an irrational being, as an animal. L. 1, § 3, D. si quod paup. fee; Vicat; Calv. Lex.