ON THE
LAWS OF ENGLAND.
in 2008 with funding from
Microsoft Corporation
TTTF.
LAWS OF ENGLAND
Sir WILLIAM BLACKSTONE, Knt.,
FORMERLY ONE OF THE JUSTICES OF THE COUUT OF COMMON FLEAS.
ADAPTED TO THE PRESENT STATE OF THE LAW,
By ROBEKT MALCOLM KERR, LL.D.
OP THE RIGHTS OF THINGS.
FOURTH EDITION.
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PRESERVATION
SERVICES
DATE.SEP1. 9.198.9
LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.
1876.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS,
STAMFORD STREET, AND CHARING CROSS.
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f2CONTENTS.
BOOK THE SECOND.
OF THE EIGHTS OF THINGS.
CHAPTER I.
PAGE
Of Property in General.
Origin of Property -------1
Dwellings --------4
Water _-______4
Land ---------5
Colonization - ______-5
Occupancy of Soil -------7
Transfer of Property ______ 8
Inheritance --------9
Wills and Testaments ------ 10
Rules of Succession - - - - - - -ll
CHAPTER II.
Of Real Property; and, first, of Corporeal Hereditaments.
Lands ________ 13
Tenements --------13
Hereditaments _______ 14
Signification of " Land "- - - - - -15
CHAPTER III.
Of Incorporeal Hereditaments.
I. Advowsons - - - - - - -17
Appendant and in Gross - - - - - 17
Presentative, Collative, and Donative 18
II. Tithes.
Predial, Mixed and Personal ----- 19
1. Origin of the Right to Tithes 20
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2. To whom due - - - - - - 21
Parishes ------ 22
3. Exemptions from Tithes.
Eeal Compositions ----- 22
Pr…