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Ø 6. How created
8. Oifices incident to others
11. How granted
16. Bishops, &c. may grant Offices
21. What Elate may be had in Offices
35. Of Reversionary Grants
40. What Offices may be intailed
43. What Offiees are subject to Curtesy and Dower
46. Some Offices may be held by Two Persons
51. What Offices may be afligned
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Who
may
hold an Office
61. How to be exercised
71. Qualifications required for Offices
077. Of the Offence of buying Offices
89. What Bargains not within the Statute
91. Where Équity relieves
94. How Offices may be lost -
95. Forfeiture
105. Acceptance of an incompatible Office
108. Destruction of the Principal
TITLE XXVI.
DIGNITIES.
ý 1. Origin of Dignities
15. Names or Titles of Dignities
38. Of Dignities by Tenure
48. Of Dignities by Writ
50. The Person summoned must fit
52. What Proof necessary
54. Descendible to Females
68. Of Writs to the eldest Sons of Peers
78. Of Dignities by Letters Patent
92. A Dignity need not be of any Place
94. Dignities by Marriage
97. Whether a Dignity may be refused
03. What Eflate may be had in a Dignity
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106. No
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gio6. No Curtesy of a Dignity
.
114. A Dignity cannot be aliened
123. A Peer degraded for Poverty
125. A Dignity not extinguished by a new Title
128. An Earldom does not attract a Barony :
132. A Dignity is forfeited by Attainder
134. Corruption of Blood
137. Exception-Intailed Dignities
139. Reftitution of Blood
143. Descent of Dignities
149. Abeyance of Dignities
156. The King may terminate the Abeyance
163. Effect of a Writ of Summons to One of the Heirs of
a Coheir
165. Where only One Heir, the Abeyance terminates
171. Attainder of One of Two Coheirs does not determine
: the Abeyance
174. Length of Time does not bár a Claim to a Dignity
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TITLE XXVII.
FRANCHISES.
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279
ibid.
281
$.I. Nature of Franchises
3. Franchises annexed to Manors
4. Court Leet
6. Waifs
10. Wreck
17. Estray
23. Treasure-Trove
26. Royal Fish
27. Forfeitures
29. Deodands
32. Fairs and Markets
42. A Foreit
51. A Free Chase
57. A Park
61, A Free Warren
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CHAP. I.
Of the Origin and Nature of Rents.
§ 1. Origin of Rents
6. Of Rent-Service
8. Of a Rent-Charge
12. Of a Rent-Seck
13. Other Sorts of Rents
17. Out of what a Rent may issue
26. Upon what Conveyances
36. How a Rent-Charge may be created
40. To whom Rents
may be reserved
55. At what Time payable
65. When Rent goes to the Executor, or to the Heir
71. Of Distress for Rent
73. Of Condition of Re-entry
76. Clause of Entry
78. Right of Entry by Way of Use
79. Ejectment
80. Courts of Equity
82. Actions of Debt and Covenant
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CHAP. II.
Of the Incidents to Rents.
$ 1. An Estate in Fee and in Tail may be had in a Rent
335
5. And an Efate for Life or Years
336
6. Occupancy of a Rent
11. Curtesy
338
14. Dower
20. Within the Statute of Uses
27. May be granted in Remainder
30. May commence in futuro
32. May cease for a Time
33. A Rent cannot be devested
36. How a Rent may be forfeited
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345
ibid. 346
CHAP. III.
Of tbe Discharge and Apportionment of Rents. 1. Discharge of Rent-Service
13. Discharge of a Rent-Charge
21. Apportionment of a Rent-Charge
27. Apportionment of a Rent-Service
41. Statute 11 Geo. 2. for apportioning of Rent
TITLE XXIX.
DESCENT.
of the Title to Things real.
§ 2. Definition of a Title
3. Pofseffion
4. Right of Poffeffion
8. Right of Property
9. Discontinuance of an Estate Tail
10. Poffeffion, and Right of Possession and Property
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370
Of Descent and Confanguinity.
§ i. Nature of Descent
3. Of Consanguinity
7.
be Heirs
8. They must be legitimate
12. And natural-born subjects
18. A Title may be derived through an Alien
20. Persons attainted, incapable of inheriting
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CHAP
382
Of the Rules or Canons of Defcent.
Pige
§ 3. First Canon.--Inheritances lineally descended
2. Maxim, that Nemo e Hares viventis
383
3. The Ancestor must die feised
8. Exceptions to this Rule
384
10. Explanation of the First Canon
385
12. A Descent
be defeated by the Birth of a nearer Heir 386
17. Exclusion of the ascending Line
387
23. Second Canon.– Males preferred to Females
389
25. Third Canon. --The eldest Male succeeds
30. Fourth Canon. ---Right of Representation
391
35. Fifth Canon.-Collateral Descents
393
-36. The Heir must be descended from the First Purchaser ibid.
41. Defcents exparte paterna et materna
395
43. What Aets will alter the Descent
396
59. Rule of Collateral Descents
406
60. Sixth Canon.-Exclusion of the Half-Blood
407
66. What Seilin is neceflary
77. Trusts descend to the Whole Blood
78. Advowfons, Tithes, c.
84. Seventh Canon.-- The Male Stocks preferred
419
86. Mode of tracing an Heir at Law
420
95. Obfervations on Blackstone's Doctrine of D:fcents
424
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CHAP. IV.
Of the Descent of Estates in Remainder or Reverfion. 2. Remainders, &c. defcend to the Heirs of the Person in
whom they firit vested
6. A Right to a Remainder does not exclude the Half-
Blood
15. An Act of Ownership operates as a Seifin
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CHAP. V.
Of Descent by Statute and Custom.
§ 1. Descent of Estates Tail
6. No Corruption of Blood
10. Customary Descents
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