| William Blackstone - Law - 1807 - 698 pages
..." the father to the bough, " the son to the plough '." 3. In most places he had a power of devising lands by will, before the statute for that purpose...made - . 4. The lands descend, not to the eldest, youngest, or any one son only, but to all the sons together 1 ; which was indeed anciently the most... | |
| Edward Augustus Kendall - 1811 - 474 pages
...The father to the bonde, ''. The son to the londe;" 8. In most places, he had the power of devising lands by will, before the statute for that purpose...signify the sort of tenure which belonged to gavel-land ; and gavel land, as the folc-land, which payed tribute, was devisable by will, anil might descend... | |
| John Mason Good - 1813 - 714 pages
...father to the bough, the son to the plough." 3. In most places he had a power •of devising land« by -will, before the statute for that purpose was made. 4. The lands descend, not to the eldest, youngest, or any one son only, GAU but to all the sons together; which was indeed anciently the most... | |
| Sir William BLACKSTONE, Vincent WANOSTROCHT - Constitutional law - 1823 - 872 pages
...being, " the father to the bough, the son to the plough." 3. In most places he had a power of devising lands by will, before the statute for that purpose...was made. 4. The lands descend, not to the eldest, youngest, or any one son only, but to all the sons together; which was indeed anciently the most usual... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 798 pages
...being, ' the father to the bough, the son to the plough.' 3. In most places he had a power of devising lands by will, before the statute for that purpose...was made. 4. The lands descend, not to the eldest, youngest, or any one son only, but to all the sons together ; which was indeed anciently the most usual... | |
| Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 814 pages
...being, 'the father to the bough, the son to the plough.' 3. In most places he had a power of devising lands by will, before the statute for that purpose...was made. 4. The lands descend, not to the eldest, youngest, or any one son only, but to all the sons together ; which was indeed anciently the most usual... | |
| William Blackstone - Great Britain - 1838 - 910 pages
...father to the bough, the son to the plough" (»') (7). 3. In most places he had a power of devising lands by will, before the statute for that purpose...made (*). 4. The lands descend, not to the eldest, youngest, or any one son only, but to all the sons together (/) ; which was indeed anciently the most... | |
| William Blackstone, James Stewart - Personal property - 1844 - 684 pages
...heirs, and in felony, if the felon be outlawed.1" 3. In most places the tenant had a power of devising lands by will, before the statute for that purpose...was made." 4. The lands descend, not to the eldest, youngest, or any one son only, but to all the sons together;0 which was indeed anciently the most usual... | |
| Lord William Pitt Lennox - 1874 - 262 pages
...being " the father to the bough, the son to the plough." 3. In most places he had a power of devising lands by will, before the statute for that purpose...was made. 4. The lands descend, not to the eldest, youngest, or any one son only, but to all the sons together; which was indeed anciently the most usual... | |
| William Blackstone, Alexander Leith, James Frederick Smith - Law - 1880 - 650 pages
...being " the father to the bough, the son to the plough." 3. In most places he had a power of devising lands by will, before the statute for that purpose...was made. 4. The lands descend, not to the eldest, youngest, or any one son, but to all the sons together ; which was indeed antiently the most usual*... | |
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