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CHALKING THE DOOR

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 807 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHALKING THE See also:

DOOR , a Scottish See also:custom of landlord and See also:tenant See also:law. In former days the law was that " a See also:burgh officer, in presence of witnesses, chalks the most patent door See also:forty days before Whit See also:Sunday, having made out an See also:execution of 'chalking,' in which his name must be inserted, and which must be sub-scribed by himself and two witnesses." This ceremony now proceeds simply on the verbal See also:order of the proprietor. The execution of chalking is a See also:warrant under which See also:decree of removal will be pronounced by the burgh See also:court, in virtue of which the tenant may be ejected on the expiration of a See also:charge of six days.

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