All England was used to sumptuary laws, laws regulating the price of commodities, and villeins still existed.
Sumptuary laws, in early England; statute de cibariis; courses at dinner regulated by law; diet and apparel; statute of A.
Upon the sober and industrious poor, taxes upon such commodities act as sumptuary laws, and dispose them either to moderate, or to refrain altogether from the use of superfluities which they can no longer easily afford.
Sumptuary laws, superfluous restraints on the common people, 142.
Have our taxation laws the character of sumptuary laws?
By the same reasoning, our laws partake little of the character of sumptuary laws.
Political economists therefore tell us that any regulations would be ridiculous which, as Lord Bacon expresses it, should serve for "the repressing of waste and excess by sumptuary laws.
The very best code of sumptuary laws is that, which may be found in the common sense of an enlightened community.
It has often been attempted to stigmatize the wholesome, prohibitory laws of the several States, in regard to the sale of intoxicating liquor, by calling them sumptuary laws.
In modern times the most important excises and financial duties of entry have been evolved out of sumptuary laws.
After a long pause, sumptuary laws relating to food, funerals and games of chance, constitute an important part of Sulla's legislation.
To judge of the salutariness of sumptuary laws, we must keep the above three social periods in view throughout.
Sumptuary laws (die Luxusgesetzgebung) have been aimed, at all times, principally at the outlay for clothing, for the table and for funerals.
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