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Page 51 - French,) and therefore signifying the court of such petty chapmen as resort to fairs or markets. It is a court of record, incident to every fair and market : of which the steward of him who owns or has the toll of the market, is the judge ; and its jurisdiction r 33 ] extends to administer justice for all commercial injuries done in that very fair or market, and not in any preceding one.
Page 48 - ... to sell, and give, on the bargain being made, a penny or halfpenny by way of earnest ; and tell the peasants to take the corn to their house, and that there they shall receive their pay. And when they come there, and think to have their payment directly, the buyer says that his wife at his house has gone out, and has taken the key of the room, so that he cannot get at his money ; but that the other must go away, and come again soon and receive his pay. And when he comes back a second time, then...
Page 49 - J will tempt me again to quote from this most valuable and unique record : — " And if any default shall be found in the bread of a baker of the City, the first time let him be drawn upon a hurdle from the Guildhall to his own house, through the great streets, where there may be most people assembled, and through the great streets that are most dirty, with the faulty loaf hanging from his neck.
Page 49 - And sometimes, while the poor men are waiting for their pay, the buyer causes the corn to be wetted ; and then, when they come to ask for their pay, which was agreed upon, [they are told] to wait until such a day as the buyer shall choose to name, or else to take off a part of the price ; which if they will not do, they may take their corn and carry it away ; a thing which they cannot do, because it is wetted, [and] in another state than it was in when they sold it. And by such...
Page 94 - ... engineer" its general plan, and superintend its minor details. Looking at business men from one point of view we may regard them as a highly skilled industrial grade, from another as middlemen intervening between the manual worker and the consumer. There are some kinds of business men who undertake great risks, and exercise a large influence over...
Page 51 - It is a court of record, incident to every fair and market; of which the steward of him who owns or has the toll of the market, is the judge; and its jurisdiction extends to administer justice for all commercial injuries done in that very fair or market, and not in any preceding one. So that the injury must be done, complained of, heard, and determined, within the compass of one and the same day, unless the fair continues longer.
Page 19 - ... new reign formed an era of advancing prosperity and progress, of rising rents and profits, of the rapid multiplication of fertilising agencies, of an expanding area of corn cultivation, of more numerous, better bred, better fed, better housed stock, of varied improvements in every kind of implement and machinery, of growing expenditure on the making of the land by drainage, the construction of roads, the erection of farm buildings, and the division into fields of convenient size. So far as the...
Page 147 - Moderately fattened sheep (shorn) should yield about 58 per cent, carcass in fasted liveweight ; excessively fat sheep may yield 64 per cent., or more. Moderately fat pigs, killed for fresh pork, should yield (including head and feet) about 80 to 82 per cent, carcass in fasted liveweight ; large, well-fattened pigs, fed for curing, will yield a considerably higher proportion. In each of the three descriptions of animal, the proportion will, however, vary much according to breed, age, and condition.
Page 48 - And whereas some buyers and brokers of corn do buy corn in the City of country folks who bring it to the City to sell, and give, on the bargain being made, a penny or halfpenny by way of earnest ; and tell the peasants to take the corn to their house, and that there they shall receive their pay. — And when they come there and think to have their payment directly, the buyer says that his wife at his house has gone out, and has taken the key of the room, so that he cannot get at his money ; Fol.
Page 23 - The engrossiitg of corn, or the buying of it in one market with intent to sell it again in another, was made an offence punishable by imprisonment and the pillory ; and no one was allowed to carry corn from one part of the country to another without a licence, the privilege of granting which was confided by a statute of Elizabeth to the quarter sessions. But as the principles of commerce came to be better understood, the impolicy of these restraints grew more and more obvious. They were considerably...