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Common Law. Particular Customs.
Inserenda
No 1 Immemoriality
It is plain this property could not have been from the first, essential
to the validity of a Custom.
No 2.
It must be remembered this is not itself a practise on
the Law, but a comment on one that is. It can be
regular therefore no further than the text is regular.
Had we i to work a treatise on particular customs, I
should look over the assemblage of all the particular
customs of which there is intimation in the books, in
order to lay down such general rules as might seem proper
to lay down concerning them [in
No 3.
To come in at p.2
NOTE [a]
This is in p.68 74. It was but in p.68, we may remember,
that the proposition "That the eldest
son alone is heir to his ancestor was cited without
scruple or hesitation among the maxims expressive
of those general customs which in the page preceding
he had told us are of higher authority than
history can reach.
I hired a horse of you for
I keep have horses to let. You I know you – you
have been used to deal with you. I shall want should be
glad to pay you, to have such a horse tomorrow. Sir, say I, he is at
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