Pauper

Pauper in United States

Pauper Definition

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.

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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.

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    Prison Paupers’ Petitions Surge in Supreme Court; Paperwork Forces Clerk to Add Employee, The Washington Post; May 20, 1991; Ruth Marcus

    DEATH OF A PAUPER THE LONELY BURIAL OF MICHAEL SULLIVAN.(NEWS), The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH); August 4, 1997; Perry, Kimball

    Children Bound to Labor: The Pauper Apprentice System in Early America, The Journal of Southern History; August 1, 2010; Wall, Helena M

    Splendid `Prince & Pauper’ outshines usual holiday fare.(NEWS), Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); December 23, 2001; Preston, Rohan

    Wheelock Family Theater stages `Prince and the Pauper’, Bay State Banner; February 21, 2001; Creasey, Beverly

    R.I.P., Mr. Louisdort He died a pauper, but he wanted it known he had a life, The Boston Globe (Boston, MA); March 5, 1993; David Arnold, Globe Staff

    We’re Now Just a Nation of Pauper Class Citizens, The Mirror (London, England); September 14, 2012

    Adventures and Laughs Aplenty In `The Prince And the Pauper’, Chicago Sun-Times; January 20, 1995; Joe Pixler

    Peter Pauper Press, Inc, Internet Bookwatch; August 1, 2013

    ALONE IN LIFE AND IN DEATH; Social Changes Result in an Increase in Paupers’ Funerals, Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales); May 8, 2011

    Olivi and Franciscan Poverty: The Origins of the Usus Pauper Controversy, The Catholic Historical Review; October 1, 1996; Turley, Thoma

    Woman Given Pauper’s Funeral after Hospital Makes Error, The Star (South Africa); November 5, 2012

    DYING SHAME; Shock Rise of Paupers’ Funerals as Crisis Bites; EXCLUSIVE, The Mirror (London, England); July 22, 2013

    Woodstock, Vermont Restaurant the Prince and the Pauper Takes Steps to Comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act, States News Service; May 13, 2014

    Paupers’ cash boost for charity, Birmingham Evening Mail (England); March 27, 2007

    Pauper’s field ceremony recalls crossers who died, AZ Daily Star; November 2, 2011; BRADY MCCOMBS

    KZN man to be given pauper’sburial., Daily News (South Africa); October 25, 2011

    Pauper and Prince: Ritchey, Hale, and Big American Telescopes., Science; January 7, 1994; Good, Gregory A.

    2 women see urgent need to clean up Pauper’s Field, AZ Daily Star; January 13, 2012; CARMEN DUARTE

    Famed alum cremated as a pauper.(John Karlem Riess), Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL); November 15, 2005; Possley, Maurice


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