 If the claimant does not comply with the terms on which relief is given to the destitute, he gets nothing ; and if he does comply, the compliance proves the truth of the claim — namely, his destitution.  The Edinburgh Review - Page 5031836Full view - About this book
 | Great Britain. Poor Law Commissioners - Great Britain - 1834 - 518 pages
...propose, the line between those who do, and those who do not, need relief is drawn, and drawn perfectly. If the claimant does not comply with the terms on...he does comply, the compliance proves the truth of the claim — namely, his destitution. If, then, regulations were established and enforced with the... | |
 | James N. Mahon - Poor laws - 1835 - 214 pages
...propose, the line between those who do, and those who do not, need relief is drawn, and drawn perfectly. If the claimant does not comply with the terms on...he does comply, the compliance proves the truth of the claim — namely, his destitution. " Wherever inquiries have been made as to the previous condition... | |
 | Daniel Levine - Public welfare - 1988 - 372 pages
...means "the line between those who do and those who do not need relief is drawn and drawn perfectly. If the claimant does not comply with the terms on...the truth of his claim — namely, his destitution." In essence, then, the Poor Law Report of 1834 was not primarily an investigation of conditions, 21... | |
 | Joel F. Handler - Social Science - 1995 - 196 pages
...poorhouse itself would serve as a "self-acting test of the claim of the applicant." In other words, "If the claimant does not comply with the terms on...he does comply, the compliance proves the truth of the claim, namely, his destitution." "Thus the instrument of relief was itself the test for relief."14... | |
 | Joel F. Handler, Yeheskel Hasenfeld - Social Science - 1997 - 308 pages
...enter it." In this way, the poorhouse would serve as a "self-acting test of the claim of the applicant If the claimant does not comply with the terms on...he does comply, the compliance proves the truth of the claim, namely his destitution." "Thus the instrument of relief was itself the test for relief."15... | |
 | David Kelley - Political Science - 1998 - 198 pages
...would be sought only as a last resort, and only by those who truly needed it. As the commission argued, "If the claimant does not comply with the terms on...he does comply, the compliance proves the truth of the claim — namely, his destitution."14 The effect of the reforms was a drop in spending: in 1871... | |
 | Timothy Guinnane - Business & Economics - 2003 - 528 pages
...propose, the line between those who do, and those who do not, need relief is drawn, and drawn perfectly. If the claimant does not comply with the terms on...he does comply, the compliance proves the truth of the claim, namely, his destitution. (Royal Commission 1834, p. 264) Screening, in contrast to deterrence,... | |
 | Paul Spicker, Sonia Alvarez Leguizamón, David Gordon - Political Science - 2007 - 260 pages
...themselves to the workhouse regime as a condition of receiving relief. As the 1834 Poor Law Report argued: If the claimant does not comply with the terms on...he does comply, the compliance proves the truth of the claim - namely, his destitution. (Checkland and Checkland 1974: 378) Inmates of workhouses received... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Bills, Legislative - 1885 - 246 pages
...propose, the line between those who do and those who do not need relief is drawn, and drawn perfectly. If the claimant does not comply with the terms on...he does comply the compliance proves the truth of the claim — namely, his destitution. If, then, regulations were established and enforced with the... | |
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