Illustrations of Taxation ...C. Fox, 1834 |
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... England must become poor indeed , if they denied them- selves light and air to avoid a duty of sixteen shillings and sixpence upon the lowest , -viz . , a house of eight windows , -and of no more than thirty pounds upon the palace of a ...
... England must become poor indeed , if they denied them- selves light and air to avoid a duty of sixteen shillings and sixpence upon the lowest , -viz . , a house of eight windows , -and of no more than thirty pounds upon the palace of a ...
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... England and Wales exempt from the house - tax . Farmers ' horses were to pay no tax , forsooth ; and her friend Mr. Whitford had insured his farm - stock , and been charged nothing for the stamp . If a rich man's wealth did but happen ...
... England and Wales exempt from the house - tax . Farmers ' horses were to pay no tax , forsooth ; and her friend Mr. Whitford had insured his farm - stock , and been charged nothing for the stamp . If a rich man's wealth did but happen ...
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... England . However zealous he might be in his office , it was too burdensome for any man . The work of appointing vicars to so many benefices was more than the king could undertake . He sold the appropriations , not always to holy men ...
... England . However zealous he might be in his office , it was too burdensome for any man . The work of appointing vicars to so many benefices was more than the king could undertake . He sold the appropriations , not always to holy men ...
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... England . His spirits were not cheered by the apparition of Alice , orna- mented with the hat he had left in the hall , -the very brownest and most misshapen of all that he had ever exhibited . " Papa , what a pity uncle Jerom's hat did ...
... England . His spirits were not cheered by the apparition of Alice , orna- mented with the hat he had left in the hall , -the very brownest and most misshapen of all that he had ever exhibited . " Papa , what a pity uncle Jerom's hat did ...
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... Provinces , which , being Presbyterian , offered no ecclesiastical tax on its cultivation ; and that its growth in England be- gan from the time when , by a special provision , 5s . per acre were to be taken in lieu 74 EXTORTION .
... Provinces , which , being Presbyterian , offered no ecclesiastical tax on its cultivation ; and that its growth in England be- gan from the time when , by a special provision , 5s . per acre were to be taken in lieu 74 EXTORTION .
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Página 62 - OLD Mother Hubbard Went to the cupboard, To get her poor dog a bone: But when she got there The cupboard was bare, And so the poor dog had none.
Página 48 - And when he comes with his carts, teams, or other carriages, to carry away his tithes, he must not suffer his horses or oxen to eat and depasture the grass growing in the grounds where the tithes arise, much less the corn there growing or cut : but...
Página 49 - And if the owner of the soil, after he has duly set forth his tithes, will stop up the ways, and not suffer the parson to carry away his tithes, or to spread, dry, and stack them upon the land ; this is no good setting forth of his tithes without fraud within the statute : but the parson may have an action upon the said statute, and may recover the treble value ; or may have an action upon the case for such disturbance ; or he may, if he will, break open the gate or fence which hinders him, and carry...
Página 48 - ... person carry away his corn or hay, or his other predial tithes, before the tithe thereof be set forth, or willingly withdraw his tithes of the same, or of such other things whereof predial tithes ought to be paid ; or do stop or let the parson, vicar, proprietor, owner, or other their deputies or farmers, to view, take and carry away their tithes as is...
Página 139 - ... clergy in opposition to each other; and has done more to paralyze their exertions, and to deprive them of the esteem of their parishioners, than all the efforts of all the infidels and sectaries that ever existed. In the emphatic language of Mr Grattan, 'it has made the clergyman's income to fall with his virtues, and to rise with his bad qualities; just as it has made the parishioner to lose by being ingenuous, and to save by dishonesty.
Página 28 - Cur': 1 cannot fee but that Turkies are Birds as tame as Hens or other Poultry, and therefore muft pay Tithes ; it is true, if Tithes be once paid of the...
Página 58 - Mixt tithes were those which arise, not immediately from the ground, but from things immediately nourished by the ground, as by means of goods depastured thereupon, or otherwise nourished with the fruits thereof; as colts, calves, lambs, chicken, milk, cheese, eggs.
Página 49 - But in this he must be cautious that he commit no riot, nor break any gate, rails, lock, or hedges, more than necessarily he must for his passage.
Página 72 - In these cases, it is held, and we think this is the true view of the law on this subject, that whether the articles sued for, were necessaries or not, is a question of fact, to be submitted to a jury, unless in a very clear case, when a judge would be warranted in directing a jury authoritatively, that some articles, as for instance, diamonds or race-horses, cannot be necessaries for any minor.
Página 49 - ... but the parson may have an action upon the said statute, and may recover the treble value ; or may have an action upon the case for such disturbance, as it seemeth ; or he may, if he •will, break open the gate or fence which hinders him, and carry away his tithes.