A Treatise on the Commercial System and Stamp Laws of Great Britain ...Whittaker and Company, 1841 - 80 |
Inne wydania - Wyświetl wszystko
A Treatise on the Commercial System and Stamp Laws of Great Britain (1841) Ayling Chamberlain Podgląd niedostępny - 2009 |
Kluczowe wyrazy i wyrażenia
100 is charged Act of Parliament ADDITIONAL TAXES advertising allow Apprentice Indentures Belgium Bills Bills of Exchange borrow 50 British Almanack British Possessions cent CHAPTER charged with Probate cheapened Coffee commercial system common consequence consider consumption contend Conveyances corn deceased persons demand distress dying worth effects endeavour England expences exportation fair families foreign countries free trade freehold property devised furnished Government greater home producers importation imposed increase industry interests intestate justice labour Legacy duty legislation less a sum liberal system manner manufactures middling classes millions of cwts millions of pounds monopoly Mortgage duties nation natural capabilities observed operation opulence paid political economy poorer classes PORTSEA present principle or method Probate duty proportion provisions real property respect scale shilling show the unfair sold Stamp Act Stamp duty Stamp Laws Sugar supply suppose sure thousands of pounds tion unequal taxation unfair method pursued unjust wealth whole
Popularne fragmenty
Strona 6 - The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection 1 of the state.
Strona 11 - It is thus that every system which endeavours, either, by extraordinary encouragements, to draw towards a particular species of industry a greater share of the capital of the society than what would naturally go to it; or, by extraordinary restraints, to force from a particular species of industry some share of the capital which would otherwise be employed in it, is in reality subversive of the great purpose which it means to promote.
Strona 11 - ... force from a particular species of industry some share of the capital which would otherwise be employed in it, is in reality subversive of the great purpose which it means to promote. It retards, instead of accelerating, the progress of the society towards real wealth and greatness, and diminishes, instead of increasing, the real value of the annual produce of its land and labour.
Strona 8 - ... policy from 1377 to 1560, we should certainly seem to have retrograded materially during the interval. Some of these acts were passed with so little consideration, and were so very absurd, that they had to be immediately repealed. Of this sort was the statute of the 8 Henry VI. cap. 24, to the effect, 'That no Englishman shall within this realm sell, or cause to be sold, hereafter, to any merchant alien, any manner of merchandises, but only for ready payment in hand, or else in merchandises for...
Strona 18 - TABLE of RATES OF PAYMENT to be demanded and paid for any Copy of a Register or Part of any Register, where a Payment is required and authorized by this Act.