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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 Excerpt:...printed on licence. mem. For selling by auction at other than place of abode a penalty of £50 is imposed by s. 7; but must be sited for by action of debt (». 24). 2. Persons not licensed, writing, painting or printing, or 3. Causing to be written, &c. or 4. Keeping or continuing written, &c. upon packs, &c. such words, or any other word or words to that effect. 5. Trading without or 6. Contrary to licence. 7. Refusing to produce and show licence, or 8. Not having Bame ready to show, when demanded by any person autho-rized by commissioners for licensing hawkers and showing his authority, or by a justice, &c. or other officer of the peace, or by a customs or excise officer, or by any person to whom goods are offered for sale (Note 18). MASTER AND SERVANT (Note 19). 1. Servants misbehaving, cfc Any servant in husbandry, artificer, handicraftsman, miner, collier, keelman, pitman, glassman, potter, or other labourer employed for any certain time, or in any other manner (s. 1), guilty of any misdemeanor, miscarriage, or illbehaviour in his service or employment. (17) A hawker, pedlar, or petty chapman, must be a person ' going from town to town," or to other men's houses, and travelling either on foot, or with horses or otherwise, carrying to sell, or exposing to sale, any goods, wares or merchandize (s. 6). A person sending his own goods, &c. to a town not his residence, and there selling them, would be liable to the penalty for trading without a hawker's licence (Dean v. King, 4 B. & A. 517; Attorney-General v. Tongue, 12 Price, 51; Attorney-General v. Woolhouse, 1 Young & J. 463; R. v. Turner, 4 B. & A. 510). An auctioneer in like manner sending and selling bis own goods would be liable to the penalty under s. 7 (...