Complex Scottish tax rules for lands and profits outlined
The text outlines detailed assessment rules for valuing lands, tenements, and heritages in Scotland, including rules for annual value, tithes, and various duties. It covers methods to compute charges on properties, mines, quarries, and businesses, along with penalties, appeals, and procedures for assessors, tenants, and landlords under schedules A to D and related clauses.
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Scotland
England
Assenger
Parieh
Great Britain
Treasury
Taxation Act long clause summary of schedules D to F
A historical parliamentary act details duties on profits for various trades offices and residences. Provisions cover assessment by commissioners, exemptions for low incomes, appeals, penalties for fraud, deductions from payments, warrants for nonpayment, and methods of payment. It sets timelines, thresholds, and penalties, including composition options, and ends with a five year effectiveness from 1842 to 1845 with possible amendments.
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Ireland
Ireland, &c
Great Britain
London
Bristol
Livernol
Glasgow
London and
East and
West India Docks
England
Scotland
Wales
Duchy of Lancaster
Duchy of Cornwall
County Palatine
Her Majesty's Army
Artillery
Infantry
Royal Marines
Royal Garrison
Corps of Engineers
Royal Artificers
Navy
Militia
British Museum
Court of Queen's Bench case on juror bias and deliberation
In Cambridge at the last assizes a bribery verdict was challenged for juror bias and for interruptions during deliberations. Affidavits alleged a juror discussed the case publicly and suggested convictions, prompting a rule to set aside the verdict. The court reviewed the grounds and considered a retrial.
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Court OF Queen’s Bench
Teespay
Banco
Loxc
Andrews
Cambridge
Reveley
University
Royal Oak
J. Lawson
Lawson
Lord Denman
Jon
QUEEN
Nott
Erle
Devon
J. Nott
Exeter
J. Russell
Russell
Oaths and Indictment in Judicial Inquiry Proceedings
The court debated whether preambles could control enacting clauses in oaths used to gather admissible testimony. Lord Denman warned against mock tribunals and noted potential miscarriages of justice. The case questioned whether the defendant could be liable without a guilty mind, referencing Lord Abinger. Time was taken to consider.
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Lord Denman
Mr. Erle
Lord Abinger
Stamp-Office
Slander case over bigamy charge shocks Warwick sheriff court
In a Midland Circuit trial, a slander action by a husband against an attorney over remarks about his wife, sister to Alleyn, ended with a verdict for the plaintiff and a request to set aside for a new trial. Evidence missteps, misidentified names, and questions of admissibility dominated, while related cases touch on engraving copyright, forged exchequer bills, and a divorce petition in Consistory Court.
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Hemixcaxnp Wire Tv
PowEn
Siaxper
Midland
Justice Williams
Balgur
Warwick
Wm. Fellett
Alleyn
All England
Allern
Wm. Follett
Balguy
Heming
Henry Allesn
Sir William Follett
Mrs. Heming
Alderson
Rolfe
London
Tom Spring
Coronation
Tae Bayx
Enciano
Tom Kins
Banco
Lord Abinger
Erle
Lord Monteagle
Percival
Exchequer
Exchequer Office
Baron Parke
Exchequer-Office
Bank of England
Exchemer
Mr. Erle
Mr. Baron Parke
Kyle
Tr Horxton
Gurney
Jockey Club
Portman
Thornton
Gurnney
Mr. Gurney
Mr. Thornton
Gumnney
Epsom
Mrr
Eric
Parke
Court of Queen's Bench
Erie
Embezzlement case against Marquess of Hertford's valet recurs
Nicholas Suisse, valet to the late Marquess of Hertford, faced re examination on embezzlement charges after earlier proof he cashed a 3000 pound and a 700 pound check, and used notes to buy stock. Prosecution and defense exchanged letters and remote evidence plans with Paris investigators. bail denied.
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Marquess of Hertford
Nicholas Suisse
Jardine
Charles Phillips
Bodkin
Hobler
Clarkson
James
Flower
Marquess
Coutts’s
Phillips
Mr. Clarkson
Paris
Suisse
Mr. Phillips
Francis Hobler
Bewson
Clerkenwell Trial Highlights Bigamy Case In Islington
William Ward a journeyman baker aged forty to fifty is charged by Islington parish authorities with marrying Eliza Banks while his first wife lived. Evidence shows he deserted his first wife about fifteen years ago, and she was maintained by the parish. A Birmingham search found him and his second wife with six children. His first wife identified him through the beadle Tubbs. Ward was remanded for further evidence. Meanwhile Islington reports a surge of base coin circulation with several arrests but few coins found on suspects.
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Henry Hollissionnay
Charles Rabbeth
Lamewalk
Cottingham
Lome
Fulham
Sator
Magistrar
Il Tame
Bicamy
William Ward
Islington
Eliza Banks
Birmingham
Tubbs
Richard Loveday
Oldershaw
St. Mary's
Corning
Suspected counterfeit gear found in obscured church-street room
Police, led by Inspector Perry, arrested Fre and Hannah Nolan after seizing Britannia metal spoons and plaster of Paris in a room off Church Street. The pair were discharged with a caution as prosecutors weighed possible charges amid ongoing vigilance and no formal arrest.
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Manisuai
Spector Perry
Church-street
Hannah Nolan
Plaister
Paris
Alt. Combe
Alig.ee
T. Giese
Marriage distress in Whitechapel baker’s home trial
A drunken court hearing concerns Mrs Martin whose sister seeks rescue from alleged confinement by her husband. Witnesses describe domestic abuse and a claim that the wife was used as a laborer and improperly treated. The magistrate remanded the case, sending the wife to Whitechapel workhouse while noting lack of direct evidence of actual assault. Large crowd gathers outside the court amid threats against the husband.
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Lambeth Street
Tursday
Sip
Henry
Maelew
Whitechapel-road
Inlaw
Dhasiya
Martin
Bey Anin
Githen
Pia
Halsham
Ant Tie
Hur. Sas
Mr. Marth
Alartin
Bethiem
Whitechapel
Icead
Greenwich Police Court Faces of Vagabonds Committed
Three men Aster Stansfield and Taylor appeared before Mr Jeremy on a vagrancy charge. Aster asked to be committed rather than sent to a workhouse, while Taylor received fourteen days and the others were discharged or later given seven days upon denial. The magistrate noted repeated offenses and the need to apply the law.
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Greenwich
Jeremy
Taylor
Aster
Mr Jeremy
Maidstone
Mr. Jeremy
Distressing Inquest Over Dock Clerk’s Death After Suspension
An inquest at the George on the body of William Macdonald, a London docks clerk, heard Caroline Stewart describe his suspension after an office error. He later died from arsenic intake, with post mortem noting intestines suggesting poison though not conclusive. Witnesses said he planned marriage, despondency followed the suspension, and arsenic was purchased for rats days earlier.
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the George
Wanna
Baker
Wm. Macdonald
London
Caroline Stewart
Herous
Loader
Mitchell
Monnay
Chandler
Garratt
Lado
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Bow Street
Union Hall
Clerkenwell
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