Chalking the door (eviction)
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title:
Chalking the door (eviction)
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In Scotland through the mid- to late 1800s, chalking the door of a tenement was a way of notifying residents that they must move out by a given day. By custom, leases and other similar contracts began or ended on the Scottish term days, which are Whitsunday and Martinmas. If a landlord wished to evict tenants in a particular tenement, the law dictated that, at the landlord's request, a burgh officer, in presence of witnesses, would chalk the primary door of the tenement forty days before Whitsun
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Scottish legal practice
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalking_the_door_(eviction)
date created:
2021-12-11T17:58:18Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T15:59:25Z
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