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... Court of Justiciary , 114 5 . of the Court of Session , ib . APPENDIX . 119 • 129 130 • · 136 · 138 139 No. I. Act of Parliament 1579 , c . 74 , : II . Excerpt from Act 1672 , c . 18 , III . Proclamation of the Privy Council , 11th ...
... Court of Justiciary , 114 5 . of the Court of Session , ib . APPENDIX . 119 • 129 130 • · 136 · 138 139 No. I. Act of Parliament 1579 , c . 74 , : II . Excerpt from Act 1672 , c . 18 , III . Proclamation of the Privy Council , 11th ...
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... Courts . Such questions have either not fallen within my observation , or are only briefly noticed in these pages . I have , however , endeavoured to collect to- gether , in as concise a form as I could , those prin- ciples which have ...
... Courts . Such questions have either not fallen within my observation , or are only briefly noticed in these pages . I have , however , endeavoured to collect to- gether , in as concise a form as I could , those prin- ciples which have ...
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... court that he haldis , gif onie sik faultoures be ' within his schireffdome , and gif onie beis founden , that they be ' punished as is before written . ' · C 6 To shew the correspondence of the earlier English and Scotch sta- tutes , a ...
... court that he haldis , gif onie sik faultoures be ' within his schireffdome , and gif onie beis founden , that they be ' punished as is before written . ' · C 6 To shew the correspondence of the earlier English and Scotch sta- tutes , a ...
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... courts , and summon an assize for the trial and punishment of vagrants ; and , in the event of their re- missness , it authorizes the infliction of pecuniary penalties , and extends to persons , to be appointed by the Kirk Ses- sions ...
... courts , and summon an assize for the trial and punishment of vagrants ; and , in the event of their re- missness , it authorizes the infliction of pecuniary penalties , and extends to persons , to be appointed by the Kirk Ses- sions ...
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... Court has found a parish liable from the birth of the child , al- though there was no proof of any application for relief having been made until two years thereafter ; and even al- though the relations of the mother , who had advanced ...
... Court has found a parish liable from the birth of the child , al- though there was no proof of any application for relief having been made until two years thereafter ; and even al- though the relations of the mother , who had advanced ...
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Page 11 - ... a convenient stock of flax hemp wool thread iron and other necessary ware and stuff to set the poor on work: and also competent sums of money for and towards the necessary relief of the lame impotent old blind and such other among them being poor and not able to work...
Page 11 - Peace as is aforesaid, for setting to work the Children of all such whose Parents shall not by the said Churchwardens and Overseers, or the greater Part of them, be thought able to keep and maintain their Children; and also for setting to work all such Persons, married or unmarried, having no Means to maintain them, and use no ordinary and daily Trade of Life to get their Living by...
Page 7 - for the punishment of vagabonds, and for relief of the poor and impotent," was essentially an act of protection for the established companies of players. We have here, for the first time, a definition of rogues and vagabonds ; and it includes not only those who can " give no reckoning how he or she doth lawfully get his or her living," but
Page 7 - Vagabond above the age of fourteen years shall be adjudged to be grievously whipped and burned through the Gristle of the right Ear with a hot Iron of the Compass of an Inch, unless some credible Person will take him into Service for a Year.
Page 74 - September at the parish kirk, and there to make lists of all the poor within their parish, and to cast up the quota of what may entertain them according to their respective needs, and to cast the said quota, the one half upon the heritors, and the other half upon the householders of the parish...
Page 28 - Overseers to make due tryal and examination of the condition and number of such Poor, Aged, Sick, Lame and impotent inhabitants of the said Paroch, who (of themselves) have not to maintain them, nor are able to work for their living...
Page 9 - Seals, to erect, build and set up in fit and convenient Places of Habitation, in such Waste or Common, at the general Charges of the Parish or otherwise of the Hundred or County as aforesaid...