MARRIAGE, BIRTH AND BURIAL TAXATION ACT (1695). An Act for Granting to His Majesty certain Rates and Duties upon Marriages, Births and Burials, and upon Batchelors and Widowers, for the Term of Five Years, for Carrying on the War against France with Vigour.

NINE YEARS WAR. JUDAICA. Great Britain. Parliament.

Verlag: London: Charles Bill and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, 1695

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Folio (10.75 inches). 6 & 7 William III, Chapter 6. General title leaf + pages 263-326. Woodcut Royal coat of arms, headband, and decorative initial. Text in Black Letter. Neatly extracted from a bound volume and expertly mended. As the war with France raged on, there was a continuous need for money to fund operations. This Act placed a variety of taxes on citizens, including a tax of two shillings and sixpence on the marriage of every person not in receipt of alms (being money or food given to the poor) and additional taxes in cases of marriage of persons of rank or property. The Act also contained a provision that Quakers, Papists, and Jews, and any other persons living together as man and wife, would be liable to the taxes that they would have been obliged to pay had they been married according to the law of England. At the same time, the Act was not to be construed as in any way making good or effectual any such marriage. This was one of the earliest mention of Jews in British statute law. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 200

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Titel: MARRIAGE, BIRTH AND BURIAL TAXATION ACT (...

Verlag: London: Charles Bill and the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb

Erscheinungsdatum: 1695

Einband: Soft cover

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: 1st Edition