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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 628 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PUBLIC See also:

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

HOUSE , in its See also:

general See also:

ENGLISH

English acceptation, a house in respect of which a See also:

LICENCE (through the French from Lat. licentia, licere, to be lawful)

licence has been obtained for the See also:

CONSUMPTION (Lat. consumere)

consumption of intoxicating liquors. Public houses are frequently distinguished as "tied" and "See also:

FREE

free." A tied house is one rented from a See also:

PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person or See also:

FIRM

firm from whom the See also:

TENANT (from Lat. tenere, to hold)

tenant is compelled to See also:

PURCHASE

purchase liquors or other commodities to be consumed therein. A free house has no such See also:

covenant. The keepers of public houses (" publicans " or " licensed victuallers ") are subject, in the conduct of their business, to a number of restrictions laid down by various acts of See also:

PARLIAMENT (Anglo-Lat. parliamentum, Fr. parlement, from parler, to speak)

parliament; while, in See also:

order to ply their See also:

trade, they require a justices' licence and an See also:

EXCISE (derived through the Dutch, excijs or accijs, possibly from Late Lat. accensare,—ad, to, and census, tax; the word owes something to a confusion with excisum, cut out)

excise licence. (See LIQUOR See also:

LAWS

LAWS; See also:

TEMPERANCE

TEMPERANCE.) By the See also:

PARLIAMENTARY

Parliamentary Elections See also:

ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

Act (1853) a public house must not be used for elections, meetings or See also:

COMMITTEE (from commute, an Anglo-Fr. past participle of commettre, Lat. committere, to entrust; the modern Fr. equivalent comite is derived from the Eng.)

committee rooms. By the See also:

PAYMENT (Fr. paiement, from payer, to pay; Lat. pacare, to appease, pax, peace)

Payment of See also:

WAGES (the plural of " wage," from Late Lat. wadium, a pledge, O. Fr. wagier, gagier)

Wages in Public Houses See also:

PROHIBITION (Lat. prohibere, to prevent)

Prohibition Act (1883) it is illegal to pay wages to any workman in a public house, except such wages as are paid by the See also:

RESIDENT

resident owner or occupier. By the Sheriffs Act (1887) when a debtor is arrested he must not be taken to a public house without his free consent, nor must he be charged with any sum for liquor or See also:

food, except what he freely asks for.

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