NOTICE TO THE READER.

THE portions of this work which lie between brackets[] are taken, without alteration, from the text of Blackstone. For the rest, the present author is responsible. To enable the reader to distinguish the former from the latter, upon merely opening the volume, and without being obliged to turn the leaves over backwards, the continuation of an extract is always marked by a new bracket at the top of

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IV. Of the Countries subject to the Laws of England

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Book I.

OF PERSONAL RIGHTS.

Of Rights and Wrongs and their Divisions, and of the Method or
Plan of Arrangement proposed for the present Work

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OF THE DIVISIONS OF THINGS REAL.

Of Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments

Of Hereditaments, Corporeal and Incorporeal

Of Free Socage and its Incidents

Of Petit Serjeanty, Tenage in Burgage, and Gavel-kind

Of Manors

Of the Antient Villenage..

OF FREEHOLD ESTATES NOT OF INHERITANCE.

Of Estates for Life, created by Act of Parties ..

Of Tenant in Tail after Possibility of Issue extinct

Of Estate by the Curtesy of England

Of Dower

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Of Estates granted on Express Condition, whether precedent or sub-

Of Conditional Limitation

Of the Right of Entry on Breach of Condition subsequent

Of Conditions Impossible, contrary to Law, or repugnant

Of Waiver of Forfeiture

Of Vivum Vadium

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Of Estates by Statute Merchant and Statute Staple

Of Estate by Elegit

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OF ESTATES IN POSSESSION, REVERSION, AND REMAINDER.

OF ESTATES IN SEVERALTY, JOINT TENANCY, COPARCENARY, AND