The Common Law of Kent, or the Customs of Gavelkind: With an Appendix Concerning Borough-English (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Practice of the Country. He hopes the Reader will not imagine that thefe Re cords are inferted as Precedents of Plead ing, they being moflly of a Time when the Courts of Law had not arrived at their Prefent Accuracy in that Partien lar; and were they more c'orreé't, yet as the Necefiity of fpecial Pleading in Aéti ons for Lands is, in a great Meafure, taken away by the modern Praétice of trying Titles on the general litue in Ejeét ment, they could, if ufed for that Pur pofe, only ferve to encreafe the Size of the Book, without any View of Benefit to the Reader. But he believes each of thefe Re cords will be found to contain fome nota ble Point of the Culloms, either confefled by the Parties in the Pleadings, found by the jury, or adjudged by the Court.

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