| Show fethe A RELIC OF OTHER DA DAYS YS but Is recognized as property by english law the ile recent revolt of farmers n southern england to resist tile payment of tithes directs attention lo 10 this form of taxation which hns has rom time to time been the cause of agitation in that coun ry 37 more than a year ago reports awe ame from a sussex town to the ef act that angry farmers had at ached a bailiff who attempted to belze iel sheep belonging to a neighbor who had failed to meet tits tithe payments du due e tile the church of 0 EngIn nil in the present sitt lation auctioneers who have tried to sell bell the property of farmers who owe tittles tithes havo met with as little success na as tile the auctioneers pioneers tio r s in ili for foreclosure closure sales ales in parts of our own midwest mid west tithe payments tire ire a relic of ancient lays days when persons were called upon to poy pay one tenth of the produce of nil all land and labor to the support of the church they were stabilized in england in 1025 1925 by an net act of parliament li ll which laid town down a fixed schedule selie dule of payments since then however the prices of live stock and agricultural produce have dropped by about CO 60 per cent the tithe probably originated in a tribute levied by n conqueror or ruler upon his subjects and perhaps the custom of dedicating a tenth of tho the spoils of war to tile tho gods bodi led to to the lie religious religions extension of the term before the TiNg lith century pay p ay iy ment of tittles tithes was enjoined by ecclesiastical writers and church coun conn ells but the earliest authentic ex ei ample of n law of the state stare enforcing payment Is probably bro bably that in the capitularies Capitula ries rles of charlemagne in angland the earliest example of legal recognition of tithes Is he be led to ile bo a decree of a n synod in the church rec received elved tittles tithes in the middle ages but trouble arose under the reign of henry VITT VIII when this monarch rattled raided tile the monasteries as he be transferred their tithe privileges to tits friends the rhe tithe la Is property und if tile tho government abolished it or evell amended it in principle it Is argued it would then have to reform all property laws so sc the tithe question Is one of parliaments knottiest knott iest problems |
