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HORNING, LETTERS OF

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 711 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HORNING, LETTERS OF , a See also:term in Scots See also:law. Originally in See also:Scotland imprisonment for See also:debt was enforceable only in certain cases, but a See also:custom gradually See also:grew up of taking the debtor's See also:oath to pay. If the debtor See also:broke his oath, he became liable to the discipline of the See also:Church. The See also:civil See also:power, further, stepped in to aid the ecclesiastical, and denounced him as a See also:rebel, imprisoning his See also:person and confiscating his goods. The method declaring a person a rebel was by giving three blasts on a See also:horn and publicly proclaiming the fact; hence the expression, "put to the horn." The subsequent See also:process, the See also:warrant directing a messenger-at-arms to See also:charge the debtor to pay or perform in terms of the letters, was called " letters of horning." This See also:system of See also:execution, was simplified by an See also:act of 1837 (See also:Personal See also:Diligence Act), and execution is now usually by diligence (see EXECUTION).

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