‘human being’, ‘private person’, ‘natural person’, ‘man’ in Statutes
how many statutes can you point to and say there it is 'human being' ?…
Surname = Surety for taxes?
A few weeks ago came across some old research I did years ago about the last name being tied to taxation based on a book name with an interesting name – the Doomsday Book – yes really.
Links and a few quotes below. Consider it as a legal presumption to overcome not a “they own the name” freak out idea. IMO
“The survey’s main purpose was to determine what taxes had been owed during the reign of King Edward the Confessor, which allowed William to reassert the rights of the Crown and assess where power lay after a wholesale redistribution of land following the Norman conquest.
The assessors’ reckoning of a man’s holdings and their values, as recorded in Domesday Book, was dispositive and without appeal. The name “Domesday Book” (Middle English for “Doomsday Book”) came into use in the 12th century.[5]
Surnames became common in England between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries when governments introduced personal taxation and are generally derived from four sources:
“Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax.”
Read more: http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/baker
POLL TAX
What do you think?
