 | 1829 - 590 pages
...punishment. Mr. Fitch observes, ' If a broker pay you not at his day, you may take him home, and keep him in your house, which is a great shame for him...may take his wife and children, and his slaves, and bind them at your door, and set them in the sun : for this is the law of the country.' However irritated... | |
 | John Crawfurd - 1829 - 650 pages
...two in the hundred, and they be bound to make your debt good ; because you sell your merchandizes on their word. If the broker pay you not at his day, you may take him home, and keep him in your house, which is a great shame for him. And if he pay you not presently, you may take... | |
 | 1829 - 586 pages
...This broiling in the sun would appear to be no new or unusual punishment. Mr. Fitch observes, ' If a broker pay you not at his day, you. may take him home, and keep him in your house, \\hich is a great shame for him ; and if he pay you not presently, you may... | |
 | John Crawfurd, Clift - 1834 - 506 pages
...two in the hundred, and they be bound to make your debt good ; because you sell your merchandizes on their word. If the broker pay you not at his day, you may take him home, and keep him in your house, which is a great shame for him. And if he pay you not presently, you may take... | |
 | William Dalton - 1860 - 402 pages
...merchandizes on their word. If the broker pay you not on the day agreed, you may take him. home, and keep him in your house, which is a great shame for him...may take his wife and children, and his slaves, and bind them at your door, and set them in the sun, for this is the law of the country." CHAPTER XXVIII.... | |
 | William Dalton - 1860 - 598 pages
...merchandizes on their word. If the broker pay you not on the day agreed, you may take him home, and keep him in your house, which is a great shame for him;...may take his wife and children, and his slaves, and bind them at your door, and set them in the sun, for this is the law of the country." CHAPTER XXVIII.... | |
 | William Dalton - 1860 - 400 pages
...agreed, you may take him home, and keep him in your house, which is a great shame for him j and it he pay you not presently, you may take his wife and children, and his slaves, and bind them at your door, and set them in the sun, for this is the law of the country." CHAPTER XXVm.... | |
 | John Horton Ryley - 1899 - 340 pages
...in the hundred : and they be bound to make your debt good, because you sell your marchandises vpon their word. If the Broker pay you not at his day,...presently, you may take his wife and children and his slaues, and binde them at your doore, and set them in the Sunne ; for that is the law of the countrey.... | |
 | Samuel Purchas - 1905 - 558 pages
...labour two in the hundred : and they be bound to make your debt good, because you sell your Merchandizes upon their word. If the Broker pay you not at his...your house : which is a great shame for him. And if hee pay you not presently, you may take his Wife and Children and his Slaves, and bind them at your... | |
 | Daniel George Edward Hall - 1928 - 292 pages
...shall be described in the words of the latter : "If the Broker pay you not at his day," he writes, " you may take him home, and keepe him in your house...and his slaves, and binde them at your doore, and sette them in the sunne ; for that is the Law of the Country." 1 All foreign traders in Burma had to... | |
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... their word. If the broker pay you not at his day, you may take him home, and keep him in your house, which is a great shame for him. And if he pay you not presently, you may take his wife and children, and his slaves, and bind them at your door, and... 
