Search results for: “feed”
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Pound
Concept of Pound The following is an old definition of Pound [1], a term which has several meanings:1. Twenty shillings. In calculating the rates of duties, the pound sterling shall be taken as of the value of four dollars, eighty-six cents, and six and one-half mills. The Colonial pound, in […]
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Herbage
English Law: Herbage in the Past A species of easement, which consists in the right to feed one’s cattle on another man’s ground. [1][rtbs name=”history-of-english-law”] Resources Notes and References Partialy, this information about herbage is based on the Bouvier´s Law […]
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Common Or Right Of Common
English Law: Common or Right of Common in the Past English law. An encorporeal hereditament, which consists in a profit which a man has in the lands of another. 12 S. & R. 32; 10 Wend. R. 647; 11 John. R. 498; 2 Bouv. Inst. 1640, et seq. Developments Common is of four sorts; of…
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Estray
Meaning of Estray The following is an old definition of Estray [1]: An animal that has escaped from its owner, and wanders or strays about; at common law, a wandering animal whose owner is unknown. A wandering beast whose owner is un- known to the person who takes it up. Estrays are such […]
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Children
The Children and the 1834 Report In this issue about the children, the book English Poor Law Policy [1] reads as follows: Apart from apprenticeship, the Report deals only incidentally with children. It is assumed throughout that children go with their parents, both with regard to the […]
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Agist
Meaning of Agist The following is an old definition of Agist [1]: Originally, to feed cattle in the king’s forest: a service performed for a consideration by officers called agisters or gist-takers. Now, to pasture animals for pay. Resources Notes and References Concept of Agist provided by […]
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Witchcraft
Meaning of Witchcraft The following is an old definition of Witchcraft [1]: The practices of a witch: a woman (formerly, a man or a woman) supposed to be able to affect the happiness and destiny of other persons by the exercise of supernatural power acquired from intercourse with evil spirits; […]
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Bill in Equity
Meaning of Bill in Chancery; Bill in Equity The following is an old definition of Bill in Chancery; Bill in Equity [1]: A statement, addressed to a chancellor or a court of equity, of the facts which give rise to a complaint, with a petition for relief. This may be an original bill or a…
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Relief on Loan
Relief on Loan and the 1834 Report In this issue about relief on loan, the book English Poor Law Policy [1] reads as follows: The Commissioners recommended that under regulations to be framed … parishes be empowered to treat any relief afforded to the able-bodied, or to their families, and […]
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Manage
Meaning of Manage The following is an old definition of Manage [1]: To direct, control, govern, administer, oversee. It is not easy to establish a rule as to what may be considered unmanageableness in a horse, and much depends upon the circumstances of each case. Management. 1. The management […]
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Voluntary Agencies in the Prevention of Destitution
The Sphere of Voluntary Agencies in the Prevention of Destitution and the Majority Report of the Royal Commission of 1905-1909 In this issue about the sphere of voluntary agencies in the prevention of destitution, the book English Poor Law Policy [1] reads as follows: Both the Majority Report […]
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Tax System History
Note: there is some information about the history of direct taxation here; and on the history of indirect taxation here. The direct taxation took the shape of a “monthly assessment” which was fixed from time to time, and which was collected under strict regulations, in marked contrast to […]
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Game Laws
From the Encyclopedia Britannica (1911): Game Laws: This title in English law is applied to the statutes which regulate the right to pursue and take or kill certain kinds of wild animals (see above). The existence of these statutes is due to the rules of the common law as to the nature […]
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Edmund Burke Work
In 1756 he made his first mark by a satire upon Bolingbroke entitled A Vindication of Natural Society. It purported to be a posthumous work from the pen of Bolingbroke, and to present a view of the miseries and evils arising to mankind from every species of artificial society. The imitation […]
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Banking Legislation
English Law affecting Banks and their Customers Issue of Notes The legislation which culminated in the Bank Charter Acts of 1844 and 1845 secured to the Bank of England the absolute monopoly of the note issue within the city of London and a 3-m. radius. Outside that radius, and within […]