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56. What is an exchange? 323.

57. Is either livery of seisin or entry necessary
in order to perfect an exchange? 323.

58. What is a partition? 324.

59. Can a partition be made by parol only, in
any case? 324.

60. What is a release? 324.

61. For what five purposes may releases enure?
324, 325.

62. What is a confirmation? 325, 326.
63. Why is not a livery of seisin necessary to a
release or confirmation of lands? 325, 326.

64. What is a surrender? 326.

65. Why is not a livery of seisin necessary to
a surrender ? 326.

66. What is an assignment; and wherein does
it differ from a lease? 326, 327.

3. What are the intentions of private acts of
parliament? 344.

4. With what cautions and preliminaries are
private acts of parliament made? 345.

5. In what are the king's grants contained?
346.

6. What is the difference between the king's
letters-patent, literæ patentes, and his writs close,
literæ clause? 346.

7. In what three points does the construction
of the king's grants differ from those of a sub-
ject? 847, 848.

8. What is a fine of lands and tenements?
348.

9. What is the origin of fines? 349.

10. Why is a fine so called? 349.

11. What is the action of covenant upon which

67. What is a defeazance; and may it be made the fine is founded? 350.
after the original conveyance? 327.

68. What are uses and trusts in our law?

328.

69. Who were the terre-tenant, and who the
cestuy que use, or the cestuy que trust? 328.
70. What was done by the statute of uses, 27
Hen. VIII. c. 10? 332, 333.

71. In what do the contingent or springing uses
of a conveyance differ from an executory devise?
334.

72. Why, in both cases, may a fee be limited
to take effect after a fee? 334.

73. What is a secondary or shifting use? 335.
74. What is a resulting use? 335.
75. May uses originally declared be revoked
at any time and new ones declared? 335.

76. What is the origin of trusts? 335, 336.
77. How do the courts now consider a trust-
estate? 337.

78. To what twelfth species of conveyance has
that by livery of seisin now given way? 338.

79. What thirteenth species of conveyance has
been introduced by this statute of uses? 338.

80. What was enacted by the 27 Hen. VIII. c.
16 as to bargains and sales? 338.

81. What gave rise to the fourteenth species of
conveyance; and what is its nature? 338, 339.
82. What may be added as a fifteenth and a
sixteenth species of conveyance? 339.

83. What are the three species of deeds used
not to convey but to charge or discharge lands?
340.

84. What is an obligation or bond, whether
single (simplex obligatio) or conditional; and how
is it a charge upon lands? 340.

85. When is the condition of a bond void; and
when the bond itself? 340, 341.

86. On the forfeiture of a bond, what sum is
recoverable? 341.

87. What is a recognizance; and wherein does
it differ from a bond? 341.

88. What is a defeazance on a bond or recogni-
zance, or judgment recovered; and wherein does it
differ from a common conditional bond? 342.

89. What general registers for deeds, wills, and
other acts affecting real property are there in
England and Scotland? 343.

CHAP. XXI.—Of Alienation by Matter of Record.

1. WHAT are assurances by matter of record?
344.

2. Of what four kinds are they? 344.

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12. What is the primer fine? 350.

13. What is the licentia concordani? 350.
14. What is the king's silver, or post fine?

350.

15. What is the concord; and who is the cog-
nizor, and who the cognizee? 350, 351.

16. How must the acknowledgment be made;
and how far does this acknowledgment complete
the fine? 351.

17. What is the note of the fine? 351.
18. What is the foot of the fine? 351.

19. What proclamations of a fine hath the sta-
tute added to prevent the levying of one by
fraud or covin? 352.

20. Of what four kinds are fines thus levied?
352, 353.

21. What is a fine sur cognizance de droit, come
ceo que il ad de son done; and of what efficacy is
it? 352.

22. What is a fine sur cognizance de droit tantum;
and for what is it commonly used? 353.

23. What is a fine sur concessit? 353.

24. What is a fine sur donc, grant, et render,
and wherein does it differ from the fine sur cog-
nizance de droit, come ceo, &c.? 353.

25. What are the force and effect of fines?
354, 355.

26. What are the three classes of persons
bound by a fine? 355.

27. Who are the parties to a fine, and how are
they bound? 355.

28. Who are privies, and how are they bound?

355.

29. Who are strangers, and in what cases are
they bound? 356.

30. But what is necessary in order to make
a fine of any avail at all? 356, 857.

31. Upon what neglect of the remainderman
or reversioner does a tenant's for life levying a fine
fail to forfeit the estate from the latter to the
former and bar it forever? 35€.

32. What is the nature of a common recovery,
and how far is it like a fine? 357.

33. What is the writ of præcipe quod reddas;
and what does it allege? 358.

34. Who is the demandant, and who the de-
fendant? 358.

35. What is the voucher, vocatio, or curing to
warranty; and who is the vouchee? 358.
36. Who is the recoverer, and who the recoveree?

358.

37. What is called the recompense or recovery
in value? 359.

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43. What are the force and effect of a common
recovery? 361.

44. By statute, when will not a recovery bar
an estate tail, and who shall not suffer a recovery?
362.

45. What, in all recoveries, is necessary on the
part of the recoveree or tenant to the præcipe? 362.
46. But what are the provisions of the statute
14 Geo. II. c. 20 in order to make good a re-
covery? 362.

47. By what two sorts of deed may the uses
of a fine or recovery be directed? 363, 364.

48. When are these deeds called deeds to lead
the uses of a fine or recovery, and when deeds to
declare them; for what purpose are they made;
and what effect have they on the fine or recovery?
363, 364.

CHAP. XXII.-Of Alienation by Special Custom.

1. To what are assurances by special custom
confined? 365.

2. How are copyhold lands generally trans-
ferred? 365.

3. What is surrender sursam redditio; and what
is the manner of transferring copyhold estates?
365, 366.

4. What operation upon a copyhold estate has
any feoffment or grant? 367.

5. If I would exchange a copyhold estate with
another, or devise one, what must be done? 367,
368.

6. What effect will a fine or recovery had of
copyhold lands in the king's courts have; and how
may such fine or recovery be reversed by the lord?
368.

7. What are the three several parts of the
assurance by surrender? 368.

8. What part of it does the surrender itself
constitute? 368.

9. What if the lord refuse to admit the surren-
deree? 368.

10. Can the surrenderor retract his surrender?
869.

11. What is the presentment of the surrender;
and when and by whom must it be presented? 369.
12. What if those into whose hands the sur-
render was made refuse to present and the lord
refuse to compel them to do so? 369.

13. Of what three sorts is admittance? 370.
14. What is the lord bound to do in admittances
upon a voluntary grant? 870.

15. How is the lord regarded in admittances
upon surrender of a former tenant, or upon descent
from the ancestor? 370, 371.

16. In what, however, do admittances upon
surrender differ from admittances upon descent?
371.

17. Are heirs of copyhold compellable to be
admitted? 372.

CHAP. XXIII.-Of Alienation by Devise.

1. WHAT is devise? 373.

2. Upon what did the restraint of devising
lands take place? 373.

3. What estate only could then be devised, with
what exceptions? 374.

4. In what shape did the popish clergy, who
then generally sat in the court of chancery, allow
of the devise of lands? 375.

5. Upon what did lands in this shape become
no longer devisable? 375.

6. What did the statute of wills, 32 Hen. VIII.
c. 1, enact? 375.

7. How is a devise to a corporation for a cha-
ritable use now held by the statute 48 Eliz. c. 4
to be valid? 376.

8. What does the statute of frauds and perjuries,
29 Car. II. c. 3, direct as to devises of lands? 376.
9. Are copyholds and terms for years within
the statute? 376.

10. How may a will be revoked? 376.

11. What did the statute 25 Geo. II. c. 6 de-
clare as to the witnesses to a will? 377.

12. What hath the statute 3 & 4 W. and M. c.
14 provided for the benefit of a testator's credit-
ors? 378.

13. How is a will of lands considered by the
courts of law? 378.

14. What distinction between devises of lands
and testaments of personal chattels is founded
upon this notion? 378, 379.

15. What seven general rules and maxims
have been laid down by courts of justice for the
construction and exposition of all the species of
common assurances? 379-382.

CHAP. XXIV.-Of Things Personal.

1. WHAT are included under the name of
things personal? 384.

2. Do not things personal consist of things
movable only, as things real do of things immov-
able? 385.

3. Under what general name, then, is the
whole comprehended? 385.

4. Into what two kinds, therefore, are chattels
distributed by the law? 386.

5. What are chattels real? 386.

6. Which quality of real estates have they
which denominates them real; and which do
they want the want of which constitutes them
chattels? 386.

7. What are chattels personal? 387, 388.

CHAP. XXV.—Of Property in Things Personal.

1. Or what two natures is property in chattels
personal? 389.

2. Into what two sorts is property in chattels
personal of the former nature divided? 889.
3. What is property in chattels personal in pos-
session absolute? 389.

4. Into what two classes does the law distin-
guish animals? 390.

5. What property can a man have in such
animals as are domitia, and what in such as are
feræ naturæ ? 890.

6. Why, of all tame and domestic animals,
does the brood belong to the mother (with what
exception)? 390.

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session qualified, limited, or special? 391.

8. On what three accounts may a qualified pro-
perty subsist in animals feræ naturæ ? 391.

9. What are those animals feræ naturæ in which
a qualified property may be acquired per industriam
hominis, by a man's reclaiming and making them
tame by art, industry, and education? 392.
10. How long are these animals the property of

a man? 392.

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13. When, and how long, may a qualified pro-
perty also subsist with relation to animals feræ
naturæ, ratione impotentæ, on account of their
own inability? 394.

14. What is that qualified property which a
man may have in animals feræ naturæ, propter
privilegium? 394, 395.

15. What other things besides animals feræ
naturæ may be the objects of qualified property;
and how long does that property last? 395.

feiture.

1. WHAT personal chattels may accrue to whom
by prerogative? 408.

2. What if the titles of the king and the sub-
ject concur? 409.

3. In what three classes of books hath the

king a kind of prerogative copyright? 410.

4. Is there not still another species of pre-
rogative property, founded upon a very different
principle from any that have been mentioned?
410, 411.

5. What four reasons have concurred for

making the restrictions which the municipal
laws of many nations have exerted upon the
natural right of every man to pursue and take
to his own use all such creatures as are feræ
naturæ? 411, 412.

6. What, however, is the origin of the game-
laws in England? 413-416.

7. What was done by the carta de foresta?
416.

8. Who only, by common law, have a right to
16. These kinds of qualification in property take or kill any beasts of chase not also beasts of
arise from the subject's incapacity of absolute own-prey? 416.
ership; but in what cases may property be of a
qualified or special nature, on account of the pe-
culiar circumstances of the owner, when the thing
itself is very capable of absolute ownership?
396.

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9. What are free-warren and free-fishery; and
what does magna carta provide as to the latter?
417.

10. Who only, by common law, can justify hunt-
ing or sporting upon another man's soil, or, in
thorough strictness, hunting or sporting at all? 417.

11. But how have the exemptions from cer-
tain penal statutes for preserving the game virtually
extended what are called the qualifications to kill
it? 417, 418.

12. For what twelve offences are all the goods
and chattels of the offender forfeited to the crown?

421.

13. When do these forfeitures commence? 421.

CHAP. XXVIII.-Of Title by Custom.

1. WHAT are the three sorts of customary in-
which obtain pretty generally throughout
most parts of the nation? 422.

22. May things personal be vested in joint-terests
tenancy, in common, and in coparcenary? 399.

23. But how is it held that partnership stock in
trade shall always be considered? 399.

CHAP. XXVI.-Of Title to Things Personal by
Occupancy.

1. WHAT are the twelve principal methods by
which the title to things personal may be acquired
and lost? 400.

2. In what eight species of goods may a pro-
perty be acquired by occupancy? 401-406.

3. But what are the restrictions as to the
right to seize the goods and person of an alien
enemy? 401, 402.

4. To what do the restrictions which are laid
upon the right to the occupancy of animals feræ
naturæ principally relate? 403.

5. What constitutes an accession to property?
404, 405.

6. What is confusion of goods; and to whom
does such act of confusion give the entire pro-
perty? 405.

7. What hath the statute declared as to lite-
rary and other copyright? 407.

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2. Into what two sorts are heriots usually di-
vided? 422.

3. What is heriot-service? 422.

4. Upon what does heriot-custom arise; and
what is it defined to be? 422.

5. To what species of tenures is heriot-custom
now for the most part confined? 423.

6. Of what does the heriot now usually consist;
and of what estate is it always? 424.

7. Why can no heriot be taken on the death
of a feme-covert? 424.

8. Can a heriot be compounded for by the
payment of money? 424.

9. What are mortuaries; and why are they'
sometimes called corse-presents? 425.

10. To what certainty did the statute 21 Hen.
VIII. c. 6 reduce mortuaries? 427.

11. What are heir-looms; what may they be
by special custom; and what are they by general?
427, 428.

12. What other personal chattels are there which
descend to the heir in the nature of heir-looms?
428, 429.

18. What if heir-looms are devised away from
the heir by will? 429.
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1. To what is succession, in strictness of law,
only applicable? 430.

2. But what sole corporations have in this re-
spect the same powers as corporations aggregate
have? 431.

3. In case a lease for years be made to the
Bishop of Oxford and his successors, who shall
have it; and why? 431, 432.

4. Yet what two exceptions are there to the
rule that no chattel can go to corporations merely
sole in right of succession? 432.

5. How are those chattels which formerly be-
longed to the wife vested in the husband by mar-
riage; and how does personal property differ in
this respect from real estate? 433.

6. How do a chattel real and a chattel personal
or chose in action vest in the husband; and what

if he die before he have recovered or reduced
them into possession? 434.

7. What shall become of the chattel real and
chattel personal if the wife die before the husband
have done so; and why? 435.

8. How do chattels personal in possession vest
in the husband? 435.

9. What are the wife's paraphernalia? 435, 436.
10. Of what natures is property in chattel in-
terests vested by a judgment in consequence of
some suit or action? 436, 437.

11. What three species of property are of the
second of these natures? 437-439.

13. What is a nudum pactum; and what degree
of reciprocity will prevent it? 445, 446.
14. How far will courts of justice support a
voluntary bond or promissory note; and why?

446.

15. What are the four most usual contracts

whereby the right of chattels personal may be ac-
quired in England? 446.

16. What is sale or exchange; how does the
former differ from the latter; and how are both
regarded by the law? 446, 447

17. Where the vendor hath in himself the pro-
perty of the goods, when only hath he not the
liberty of disposing of them? 447.

18. What constitutes a sale? 447, 448.

19. But in what cases may property be trans-
ferred by sale though the vendor have none at all
in the goods? 449.

20. What is market-day and market-overt in the
country; and what in London? 449.

21. But what has the statute 1 Jac. I. c. 21

449.

provided as to the sale of goods to pawnbrokers?
22. And in what cases are sales not binding
even in market-overt? 450.

23. What directions do the statutes 2 P. and
M. c. 7 and 31 Eliz. c. 12 enact concerning the
sale of horses? 450, 451.

24. What remedy has a purchasor if a vendor
sell goods and chattels as his own and the titl
prove deficient? 451.

25. When is the vendor bound to answer for
the goodness of his wares purchased? 451.
26. What is bailment; and who is the bailor,

CHAP. XXX.—Of Title by Gift, Grant, and Con- and who the bailee? 451, 452.

tract.

1. WHAT is the distinction between a gift of
personal property and a grant? 440.

2. What may be included under the head of
gifts or grants of chattels real; and what consi-
derations, in the eye of the law, convert the gift,
if executed, into a grant, if not executed, into a
contract? 440.

3. What are grants or gifts of chattels personal;
and how may they be made? 441.

4. Why does the statute 3 Hen. VII. c. 4 de-
clare all deeds of gifts of goods made in trust to
the use of the donor void; and what does the
statute 13 Eliz. c. 5 declare as to every grant or
gift of chattels, as well as lands, with intent to
defraud creditors? 441.

5. By what is a true and proper gift or grant
always accompanied; and in what cases only
may it be retracted? 441.

6. But what if the gift do not take effect by
delivery of immediate possession? 441, 442.
7. What interest does a contract convey as dis-
tinguished from a gift or grant; and how is it
defined? 442.

8. Can a chose in action be assigned? 442.
9. What are express contracts, and what implied?
443.

10. What are executed and what executory con-
tracts; and how do they differ in the choses they
convey? 443.

11. What is a good and what a valuable con-
sideration; and how may each of these be set
aside? 444.

12. In what four species are valuable consider-
ations divided by the civilians? 444, 445.

27. What does the law call agistment? 452.
28. If a man deliver any thing to his friend
to keep for him, when is the bailee answerable
for any damage or loss it may sustain? 452.

29. Why, in all instances of bailment, may the
bailee, as well as the bailor, maintain an action
against such as injure the chattels bailed? 452,
453.

30. What is the difference between hiring and
borrowing? 453.

31. What is interest; and upon what are its
doctrines grounded? 454, 455.

32. To what three practices does the circum-
stance of the hazard of lending money being
greater than the compensation arising from the
rate of interest allowed by law on the loan give.
rise? 457.

33. What is bottomry; and in what does it
differ from respondentia? 457, 458.

34. What is enacted by the statute 19 Geo. II.
c. 37 as to all moneys lent on bottomry or respon-
dentia on vessels bound to and from the West
Indies? 458.

35. What is a policy of insurance? 458, 459.
36. What is enacted by the statute 14 Geo.
III. c. 48 as to insurances on lives? 459, 460.

27. Policies of insurance being contracts, the
very essence of which consists in observing the
purest good faith and integrity, how is fraud or
undue concealment in them provided against?

460.

38. What is enacted by the statute 19 Geo. II.
c. 37 as to what are denominated wagering poli-
cies ? 460, 461.

39. From what does the practice of purchasing
annuities for lives at a certain price or premium,

instead of advancing the same sum on an ordi-
nary loan, arise? 461.

40. What has the statute 37 Geo. III. c. 26
directed in order to throw some check upon im-
provident transactions of this kind? 461, 462.
41. What is now the extremity of legal interest
that can be taken? 463.

42. If a contract which carries interest be
made in a foreign country, of what interest will
our courts direct the payment? 463, 464.

43. What does the statute 14 Geo. III. c. 79
enact as to the legality of interest on all mort-
gages and other securities upon estates or other
property in Ireland or the plantations? 464.

44. What is debt; and in what cases may it be
the counterpart of and arise from any of the
other species of contracts? 464.

45. Into what three classes is debt usually di-
vided? 465.

46. What is a debt of record? 465.

47. What is a debt by specialty or special con-
tract? 465.

48. What are debts by simple contract? 465.
49. What is enacted by the statute 29 Car. II.
c. 3 as to one person's being responsible for the
debt of another? 466.

50. What is that species of simple-contract debt
now introduced into all sorts of civil life under
the name of paper credit? 466.

51. What is a bill of exchange, or draft; and
who is the drawer of it, who the drawee, and
who the payee? 466, 467.

52. Of what two sorts are bills of exchange;
and what difference is there in law between
them? 467.

53. What are promissory notes, or notes of hand,
and for what sum at least must they be drawn?
467, 468.

54. Why is it usual in bills of exchange to ex-
press that the value thereof hath been received
by the drawer? 468.

55. By what means may a bill of exchange or
promissory note be assigned? 468, 469.

56. When may a bill of exchange be protested for
non-acceptance; and when, both a bill and a pro-
missory note, for non-payment? 469.

7. What powers have the commissioners of
bankruptcy? 481.

8. What if the bankrupt conceal or embezzle
any effects to the amount of 201., or withhola
any books or writings with intent to defraud his
creditors? 482.

9. What if it appear that his inability to pay
his debts arose from some gross misconduct and
negligence? 482.

10. After the time allowed to the bankrupt for
such discovery is expired, to what shall any
other person, voluntarily discovering any part
of the bankrupt's estate, be entitled; and what
shall any trustee, wilfully concealing it, forfeit?
482.

11. Of what ratable amount is the bankrupt's
allowance? 483.

12. When shall not the bankrupt's allowance or
indemnity be given him? 484.

13. What is an act of insolvency? 484.

14. But as to what only are persons who have
been once cleared by a bankruptcy or by an in-
solvent act indemnified in case they become bank-
rupts again? 484, 485.

15. By virtue of the statutes of bankruptcy,
in whom are all the personal estate and effects of
the bankrupt considered as vested by the act of
bankruptcy? 485.

16. What is the meaning of the saying "Once
a bankrupt and always a bankrupt”? 485, 486.
17. Who alone is not within the statute of
bankrupts? 486.

18. But what is provided by the statute 19
Geo. II. c. 32 as to money paid by a bankrupt to
a creditor, and by statute 1 Jac. I. c. 15 as to
money paid by a debtor to a bankrupt? 486.

19. What acts can and cannot the assignees of
a bankrupt do without the consent of the credit-
ors? 486.

20. What is the duty of the assignees towards
the creditors; and within what time shall the
first dividend be made? 487.

21. What debts of a bankrupt have a priority
to be paid; and what shall not be postponed or
set aside? 487, 488.

22. Within what time shall a second and final
57. In case of such protests, what compensa-dividend be made; and if any surplus remain
tion is the drawer bound to make to the payee or after paying every creditor his full debt to whom
endorsee; but what happens in the absence of shall it be given? 488.
such protests or their notification to the drawer? 469.
58. When a bill or a note is refused, how soon
must it be demanded of the drawer? 470.
59. Upon whom may an endorsee call to dis-
charge a bill or a note? 470.

CHAP. XXXI.-Of Title by Bankruptcy.

1. WHO may become a bankrupt; and who
may not? 471, 473–477.

2 What privileges do the laws of bankruptcy
confer on the creditors; and what on the debtor ?
472.

3. By what eleven acts may a man become a
bankrupt? 478, 479.

4. What are the ten proceedings on a
sion of bankrupt? 480-484.

CHAP. XXXII.-Of Title by Testament and Ad-

ministration.

1. WHAT is a testament, and what an admi-
nistration? 490.

2. What were the reasonable parts in a man's
chattels of the wife and children? 492.

3. What part of his chattels may a man now
devise? 492, 493.

4. When is a man said to die intestate? 494.
5. To whom did the goods of intestates anciently
belong; and to whom were they granted? 494.
6. What is the origin of the right of the
church to the probate of wills and to the admi-
commis-nistration of intestate's property? 494-496, 509, 510.
7. Who is the intestate's administrator? 496.
8. Upon what three accounts are persons pro
hibited, by law or custom, from making a will?
497.

5. What if the bankrupt make default in either
surrender of himself or conformity to the di-
rections of the statutes of bankruptcy? 481.

6. What powers has any judge or justice of the
peace over a bankrupt? 481.

9. Who are to be reckoned in the first species?
497.

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