But masters seem to have had no power to sell their servants.
But masters seem to have had no power to sell their servants--the reason is obvious.
A very large portion of them, to save themselves from starvation, have no alternative but to sell their labor to others, at just such prices these others choose to pay.
Foreign' poulterers were ordered to sell their wares at the corner of Leadenhall, known as the Carfukes (or Carfax).
And upon the same principle there are laws which forbid men to sell their property, as among the Locrians, unless they can prove that some notorious misfortune has befallen them.
By means of them, our merchants and manufacturers, it is pretended, will be enabled to sell their goods as cheap or cheaper than their rivals in the foreign market.
With the exception of the small minority that might be engaged in purely individual avocations, and in co-operative enterprises, men would be compelled to sell their labour to either the municipality or the national government.
They would still be able to sell their capital, and convert the proceeds to their immediate uses and pleasures.
There is no sufficient evidence that the large landholders are exceptional offenders in refusing to sell their holdings to actual settlers.
And as the glut in the goods market stimulated competition among the capitalists tosell their goods, so likewise did the glut in the labor market stimulate an equally desperate competition among the workers to sell their labor.
For this purpose the best place, of course, was where there were many people who likewise wanted to buy or sell their labor or goods.
The occupiers were allowed again to sell their land.
The mouths of the farmers were stopped by the pernicious but tempting permission to sell their land.
Some one must go among these good people and warn them not to sell their lands, not to be cheated out of their birthrights.
His task was now to find other men who had fallen under the influence of MacDougall, and to persuade them not to sell their lands.
He was advising men to sell their lands, and was lending more money on land than it was reasonable to suppose he owned.
He missed no opportunity to get in a word against the gringos, and incidentally against those Mexicans who betrayed their fellows by advising them to sell their lands.
So, any workman does quite right in selling his labour for the highest rate of wages he can get, provided that he does not interfere with the similar right of other workmen to sell their labour as they like.
If they make a mistake, they must suffer for it, and those who choose to sell their goods in the meantime will have the benefit.
For the natives are addicted to theft and licentiousness, and the women are ready to sell their persons; and for these reasons there is, here, more than an intimacy of men and women.
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