The Southern Review, Volume 3A. E. Miller., 1829 |
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... sands . " Blackstone affirms , " that that policy was brought by them from their own country , and continued in their respective colonies as the most likely means to secure their new acquisitions , and that to 1829. ] 3 Law of Tenures .
... sands . " Blackstone affirms , " that that policy was brought by them from their own country , and continued in their respective colonies as the most likely means to secure their new acquisitions , and that to 1829. ] 3 Law of Tenures .
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means to secure their new acquisitions , and that to that end , large districts or parcels of land were allotted by the conquering general to the superior officers of the army , and by them dealt out again in smaller parcels or ...
means to secure their new acquisitions , and that to that end , large districts or parcels of land were allotted by the conquering general to the superior officers of the army , and by them dealt out again in smaller parcels or ...
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... means of support- ing a numerous band of retainers but by violence and war , for it is from the liberality of the chieftain that they exact the warrior - horse , the bloody and victorious javelin , which they long to possess . Feasts ...
... means of support- ing a numerous band of retainers but by violence and war , for it is from the liberality of the chieftain that they exact the warrior - horse , the bloody and victorious javelin , which they long to possess . Feasts ...
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... means put it into the hands of a stranger.¶ 4thly . That even when feuds were become hereditary , and the confidence of the lord was , in legal contemplation , extended to all who were of the blood of the vassal or feudatory , the ...
... means put it into the hands of a stranger.¶ 4thly . That even when feuds were become hereditary , and the confidence of the lord was , in legal contemplation , extended to all who were of the blood of the vassal or feudatory , the ...
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... means , prodigiously extended ; nor can we wonder at the important political consequences it produced , when we consider the nature of that relation which subsisted between even the most humble vassal and his immediate sub- * Feud . lib ...
... means , prodigiously extended ; nor can we wonder at the important political consequences it produced , when we consider the nature of that relation which subsisted between even the most humble vassal and his immediate sub- * Feud . lib ...
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