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BLACKST. Classific.n Tenures 6
In these unnecessary and abusive additaments that
contribute more than any thing else to work up
Jurisprudence into a Mystery. By all these
artificial intricacies the profession profits. If there
were more of them it would profit more: if there
were fewer of them it would profit less.
Custom makes them be looked upon as belonging
necessarily irreparably to the subject matter. They belong, the greatest
part of them no more than to that subject than
to another. They belong no more to immoveable
property [as such] than moveable. The Falcon
that is given in Grand Serjeantry for an estate,
might as well itself be held, (as long as it lives)
in Grand Serjeantry, as given for it the estate.
A Punch Mug Punch bowl might as well be holden by the
rod, and surrendered by a man to the use of his Will
instead of being bequeathed not without further ceremony
as a piece of ground.
When a Man succeeds to an estate of Copyhold.
The best beast he has (such is the
Custom in many Manors) is seizable for the
Lord. But the same match of rapine against
fraud might be as well be run on account of
a succession to the ownership of the Beast itself.
BLACKST: Classifica.n Tenures. 6
Identifier: | JB/028/011/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 28.
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