Sentence examples for indigent persons from inspiring English sources

Legal aid, the professional legal assistance given, either at no charge or for a nominal sum, to indigent persons in need of such help.

Title XVI of the Act, which governs Supplemental Security Income benefits for disabled indigent persons, employs the same definition of “disability” used in Title II, including a qualification that is verbatim the same as §423(d)(2)(A).

The issue presented in this case, therefore, is whether the prohibition embodied in Section 2615 against the 'bringing' or transportation of indigent persons into California is within the police power of that State.

Statutory provision for litigation in forma pauperis in the federal courts is made by 28 U.S.C. 1915, 28 U.S.C.A. § 1915, authorizing '(a)ny court of the United States' to allow indigent persons to prosecute, defend or appeal suits without prepayment of costs.

Counties are required under a 1933 state law to "relieve and support all incompetent poor, indigent persons".

Under a 1930s state law, counties are required to "relieve and support all incompetent, poor, indigent persons".

Research shows that keeping an indigent person in jail prior to their hearing not only causes personal hardship for that person (and their family), but also seriously damages their ability to fight the charges.

Dust Bowl migrants, for example, were so resented that legislators passed a 1937 "anti-Okie" law a that criminalized the bringing of "any indigent person" into California.

As a Las Vegas statute puts it, "an indigent person is a person whom a reasonable ordinary person would believe to be entitled to apply for or receive" public assistance.

When asked by Assistant U.S. Attorney Theodore whether he had protested at nuclear-weapons facilities in other countries, Walli said that he had not, adding, "I'm an indigent person. . . .

Here in Oklahoma, criminal defendants can be assessed 66 different kinds of fees, from a "courthouse security fee" to a "sheriff's fee for pursuing fugitive from justice," and even a fee for an indigent person applying for a public defender (I'm not kidding: An indigent person is actually billed for requesting a public defender, and if he or she does not pay, an arrest warrant is issued).