4 June 1806

A release ... a greater estate's descending upon a less. II 326.

A surrender is the falling of a less estate into a greater by deed. II 326.

A convenant to stand seized to uses by which a man .... is put at once into corporal possession of land ... by a kind of parliamentary magic. II 238

The king's excellency is so high in the law, that no freeholds may be given to the king, nor derived from him but by matter . II 346

Grants made by the king are ex speciali gratia, certa scientia, et mers motu regis. II 347.

King's grants void, if informal or made under a misconception II 348

Assurance to an estate by a fictitious fine. II 348

Fictitious action of recovering to obtain possession of an estate. II 357

For lands obtained by recovery a possibility, in contemplation of law, of an equivalent being obtained from the common recovery II 360

In surrenders a symbol used to represent the estate. II 366

Copyholds cannot be exchanged but by mutual surrendry to each others use. II 367

A devise to a corporation for a charitable use is valid, as operating in the nature of an appointment, rather than that of a bequest. II 376

A man to whom a legacy is left not allowed to be a good witness to a will because in the security for his legacy would be on the real estate, in the other only on the personal assets. II 377.

By law, things moveable considered as of less value than things immoveable. II 384.

Essential to realty immobility. II 386

Corporal investiture &c livery of seisin ... gives the Tenant so strong a hold of ... land, that it never after can be wrested from him during his life but etc. II 386.

The law will not presuppose contingency to happen before it actually does. II 387.

A man may have absolute property in animals domitae but not in animals ferae naturae. II 390

A man may have a qualified property in them [bees] by the law of nature as well as by the civil law. II 392

It is ... felony ... to steal such [animals] as are fit for food, as it is to steal tame animals.. but not so if they are kept for pleasure, curiosity, whim etc ... because their II 393

value is not intrinsic

By the law of nature, every man ... has an equal right of ... taking ... all such creatures as are ferae naturae. II 411.

Upon the principles of the feudal law ... the king is the ultimate proprietor of all the lands in the kingdom. II 415.

A prescription presumes a grant. II 418.

If a man starts any game within his own grounds & follows it into another's, & kills it there, the property remains in himself. And this is grounded on reason &natural justice. II 419

Particular crimes and misdemeanors ... are ... offences against the divine law, either natural or revealed. II 420

In judgment of law a corporation never dies. II 430.

Chamberlain of London a corporation sole. II 432

Husband & wife ... are one person in law; so that the very being & existence of the woman is suspended during the coverture, or entirely merged and incorporatio in that of the husband. II 433.

Penalties to Informers II 438.

The ... right to a satisfaction for injuries is given by the law of nature. II 438.

In ... conveying an estate less than freehold .... [it is] usually expressed to be made in consideration of blood, or natural affection, or of 5 or 10 s nominally paid to the grantor. II 440

Implied Contracts - II 443

If cloth be delivered ... to a taylor to make a suit of cloaths he has it upon an implied contract to render it again when made. II 452

By common a man's removing his goods privately to prevent their being seized was no act of bankruptcy. II 479

Succession ab intestato, presumed to be according to the will of the deceased. II 490.

Persons ... born deaf, blind & dumb ... as they want the common inlets of understanding, are incapable of having animum testandi, & their testaments are therefore void. II 479