Indigent

Defined in 4 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Anderson (1889)

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Needy; poor; destitute of means of comfortable existence. See 109 Wis. 330, 85 N. W. 387.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

One who is destitute of property or means of comfortable sustenance; one who is needy or poor. Juneau County V. Wood County, 109 Wis. 330, 85 N. W. 387. The term was designated for the benefit of the laboring population which is only self-supporting while employed, and is applied to those who were afforded a temporary support from the county for a special time; People v. Supervisors, 121 N. Y. 345, 24 N. E. 830. See Dependent.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In a general sense an "indigent" person is one who is needy and poor or one who has not sufficient property to furnish him a living nor any one able to support him and to whom he is entitled to look for support. See Storrs Agricultural School v. Whitney, 54 Conn. 342, 8 Atl. 141; Juneau County v. Wood County, 109 Wis. 330, 85 N. W. 387; City of Lynchburg v. Slaughter, 75 Va. 62. The laws of some of the states distinguish between "paupers" and "indigent persons," the latter being persons who have no property or source of income sufficient for their support aside from their own labor, thongh self-supporting when able to work and in employment. See In re Hybart, 119 N. C. 359, 25 S. E. 963; Pcople v. Schoharie County, 121 N. Y. 345, 24 N. E. 830; Rev. St Mo. 1899, § 4894 (Am. St 1906, p. 2616).

A Dictionary of Law

William C. Anderson · 1889

See Pauper; Pock. A gift "to aid indigent young men" of a certain town or State "in fitting themselves for the evangelical ministry," is not void for uncertainty. The words " indigent " and " evangelical " are sufficiently definite, within ordinary intelligence. "They describe a man.who is without sufficient means of his own, and whom no person is bound and able to supply, to enable him to prepare himself for preaching the Gospel." ^