The Southern Review, Volume 3A. E. Miller., 1829 |
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... writers as Fearne and Sugden to say , that with all their learning and ability , their works belong to a decidedly inferior class . Of the treatises on Contingent Remainders and Executory Devises , Mr. Humphreys himself remarks , that ...
... writers as Fearne and Sugden to say , that with all their learning and ability , their works belong to a decidedly inferior class . Of the treatises on Contingent Remainders and Executory Devises , Mr. Humphreys himself remarks , that ...
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... The extent and variety of the burdens and restrictions of tenure , ( fruits as they are called ) may be found in all our writers on this branch of juris- prudence ; forming , as they did , in their 2 [ Feb. Law of Tenures .
... The extent and variety of the burdens and restrictions of tenure , ( fruits as they are called ) may be found in all our writers on this branch of juris- prudence ; forming , as they did , in their 2 [ Feb. Law of Tenures .
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... writers , without any qualifica- tion " that the constitution of feuds had its original from the military policy of the Northern or Celtic [ ? ] nations , " the Goths , the Huns , the Franks , the Burgundians , the Vandals , the Lom ...
... writers , without any qualifica- tion " that the constitution of feuds had its original from the military policy of the Northern or Celtic [ ? ] nations , " the Goths , the Huns , the Franks , the Burgundians , the Vandals , the Lom ...
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... writer just mentioned cites a passage from Florus , wherein the Teutones and Cimbri , who invaded Gaul and Italy in the time of Caius Marius , demand , " ut Martius populus aliquid sibi terræ daret , quasi stipendium Cæterum , ut vellet ...
... writer just mentioned cites a passage from Florus , wherein the Teutones and Cimbri , who invaded Gaul and Italy in the time of Caius Marius , demand , " ut Martius populus aliquid sibi terræ daret , quasi stipendium Cæterum , ut vellet ...
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... writer maintains that what are called seign- euries , that is , the legal superiority of one estate or possession to others , coupled with a jurisdiction over its inhabitants , were altogether unknown to the Franks - that such an ...
... writer maintains that what are called seign- euries , that is , the legal superiority of one estate or possession to others , coupled with a jurisdiction over its inhabitants , were altogether unknown to the Franks - that such an ...
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