A Treatise on the Law of Scotland Relative to the PoorW. Blackwood: and T. Cadell, 1825 - 152 pagine |
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Pagina 9 - ... it enacts, that all persons thereafter set forth to be rogues and vagabonds, or sturdy beggars, shall for the first offence be grievously whipped, and burnt through the gristle of the right ear with a hot iron of the compass of an inch about ; for the second, be deemed felons; and for the third, suffer death as felons without benefit of clergy.
Pagina 1 - These are not only no way advantageous, but a very grievous burden to so poor a country. And though the number of them be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason of this...
Pagina 13 - ... 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...
Pagina 2 - Many murders have been discovered among them; and they are not only a most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants (who if they give not bread, or some kind of provision to perhaps forty such villains in one day, are sure to be insulted by them) but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood. In years of plenty...
Pagina 2 - ... present great distress, yet in all times there have been about 100,000 of these vagabonds, who have lived without any regard or submission either to the laws of the land, or even of those of God and nature ; father incestuously accompanying their own daughters, the son with the mother, and the brother with the sister.
Pagina 30 - ... 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...
Pagina 53 - ... he is to all intents a part of his father's family, and his settlement will vary with that of his father : but if, when that time arrives when in estimation of law the child wants no further protection from the father, the child removes from the father's family, he is not for the purpose of a derivative settlement to be deemed part of that family.
Pagina 76 - September next, at their 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 need ; and to cast the said quota, the one half upon the heritors, and the other half upon the householders of the parish, etc.
Pagina 17 - Kingdom, to seize upon and apprehend the persons of any Vagabonds, who shall be found begging, or who being Masterless and out of service, have not wherewith to maintain themselves by their own means...
Pagina 6 - A valiant beggar, or sturdy vagabond, shall at the first time be whipped and sent to the place where he was born or last dwelled by the space of three years, there to get his living : and if he continue his roguish life, he shall have the upper part of the gristle of his...