These elderly self-employed were mostly small-scale artisans, shopkeepers, pedlars and service workers working alone or with the help of family labour.
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The majority of front-avenue tenants were middle or upper stratum merchants, while most of the back-street tenants belonged to the lowest classes + day labourers, pedlars and minor artisans.
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I welcome the opportunity to enact legislation that will ensure that the ill-gotten gains of drug pedlars are taken away from them.
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The costs of issuing pedlars' certificates and hackney carriage drivers' licences are partially covered by the certificate or licence fee.
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In other words, there would be no demonstrable collusion between the purchasers at the time they made purchases from thepedlar.
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However, a bona fidepedlarhas to be able to carry his wares.
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Too many people are suffering at the hands of the pill pedlars and jack-the-lads selling seaweed patches and other such nonsense.
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The police have been very vigilant indeed in tracking down drug pedlars and people who have drugs in their possession.
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I am sorry to ask your indulgence again, but there is a significant difference between the various groups that you have mentioned and pedlars.
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Many of those involved in unlicensed street trading are not pedlars and, what is more, make no claim to be so.
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Pedlars are supposed to trade only on foot, although they are allowed to push barrows.
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The effect of those judgments is that apedlarmust keep on the move, apart from when conducting a sale.
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The question is whether apedlarremained on one spot for any length of time, so effectively inviting customers to come to him.
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Pedlars are known only to their own local police authority.
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There are significant problems associated with people who trade on the streets, whether they are pedlars or street traders.
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