Truck Acts

Truck Acts
Statutes regulating the medium in which wages are payable. 31 Am J Rev ed Lab § 822. As early as the fourteenth century, laws in England prohibited the payment of wages, in certain trades, in anything but lawful money of the realm; and in 1831, all of these laws were consolidated into what is known as the Truck Act, embracing nearly all classes of trades. The purpose of this legislation was the abolition of what was known in that country as the Truck System, that is to say, the payment of wages to laborers in goods or by truck. Similar legislation in the United States has been held constitutional.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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