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cases and pleadings, etc. (4) + xxiv + xvi + 259 pp. Fol.

1725

"There is a chasm in the paging, from 9 to 21 inclusive."-Clarke Bib. Leg.

22. Pettus (Sir J.) Fodinæ Regales; or History, Laws and Places of the Chief Mines and Mineral Works in England, Wales, and the English Pale in Ireland, as also of the Mint and Mony. (13) + 108+ (7) pp., fol., 1670; 8vo. 1706 Smirke (E.) Case of Vice against Thomas, determined on Appeal before the Lord Warden of the Stannaries of Cornwall, with appendix of records and documents illustrating the early history of the tin mines in Cornwall, and notes. (5) + 52 + vi + (1) + 132 pp. 8vo. London.

Including Charters, Court Rolls, Customs, etc.

1843

[Steer (G.)] Compleat Mineral Laws of Derbyshire; taken from the originals. vii + 176 pp. 12mo. 1734 25. S[tringer] (M.) Opera Mineralia Explicata; or the Mineral Kingdom within the dominions of Great Britain displayed: being a compleat History of the Antient Corporations of the City of London; of and for the Mines, the Mineral and the Battery Works; with the original Grants, Leases, Instruments, Writs of Privelege and Protection by Sea and Land from Arrest (except in the Mineral Courts); or being prest, or serving juries. and parish officers; as also the Records of the said Mineral Courts from the Conquest down to this present year, 1713. xii + 308 pp. 12mo.

[1713]

26. Wales. His Majesty's Mines Royal in the Principality of

Wales.

4to.

1642

Sect. Y.-SEWERS.

1. Callis (R.) Reading upon the Statute of 23 H. 8, cap. 5, of Sewers, delivered at Grays-Inn, 1622. (8) + 235 pp., 8vo., 1647; 2nd edit., (4) + 291 + (72) pp., 8vo., 1685; 3rd edit., (4) +291 + (71) pp., 8vo., 1686; 4th edit., with MS. notes of Serjeant Hill, vii + 291 (314) + (49) pp., 8vo., 1810; 4th edit., by W. J. Broderip, viii+ 400 pp., 8vo.

1824

2.

Gomme (G. L.) Court Minutes of the Surrey and Kent
Sewer Commission. Vol. 1 [1569-79]. 8vo. 1909

"Before the development of local government into the representative system one of the chief devices employed for carrying out those functions of local administration which were not included in the ancient customs of the recognised local institutions was government by commission.' Among the more important of these bodies were the several Commissioners of Sewers."

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3. Herne (J.) Reading upon the Statute of 23 H. 8, cap. 3, concerning Commissions of Sewers; translated out of the French manuscript. (5) + 30 pp. 4to. Laws of Sewers with the Laws Relating to Rumney-Marsh and other Marshes and Fens. Fol.

4.

1659

1726

CHAPTER XVIII.

PROPERTY.

1.

2.

Carr (C. T.)

64

Sect. I.-GENERAL.

Collective Ownership, otherwise than by

corporations or by means of the trust. xix + 180 pp.

8vo.

1907

The author has a thorough knowledge of the history and theory of the subject . . . It is largely historical."-24 L. Q. R. 343.

De Laveleye (E.) Primitive Property. Translated by
G. R. L. Marriott. With Introduction by T. E. C.
Leslie. xlvii + 356 pp. 8vo.

1878

Investigates the early forms of landed property in a number of
Societies, European, Asiatic, African and American.
Chap. 8.-The Agrarian System of the Irish Celts.

Chap. 18.-History of Landed Property in England and China.

3. Hazeltine (H. D.) Englisches Mobiliarpfandrecht im Mittelalter. 54 + (2) pp. 8vo. Berlin.

4.

5.

[1905]

Die Geschichte des englischen Pfandrechts. 8vo. Breslau.

Deals with the history of distress, mortgages, etc.

1907

Herbert (T. A.) History of the Law of Prescription in
England; the Yorke Prize Essay of the University of
Cambridge for 1890. xxiv + 210 pp. 8vo.

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1891

The author has adopted the commendable practice of seeking the fountains of the law as contained in the Year Books and the Old Abridgments, and he has even searched the Rot. Parl. It follows that he has collected a great deal of curious learning, which is not to our knowledge contained in any one book."-8 L. Q. R. 92.

5a. Joüon des Longrais (Dr.) La Conception Anglaise de la Saisine du xiie au xive Siècle. 8vo. Paris.

Reviewed by W. S. H. in 41 L. Q. R. 135.

1925

6. Kovalevsky (M.) Tableau des origines et de l'evolution de la famille et de la proprieté. 202 pp. 8vo. Stockholm.

7. Simcox (E. J.)

1890

Primitive Civilizations: or, Outlines of the History of Ownership in Archaic Communities. 2 vols. x + 576, vi + 554 pp. 8vo. (International Library.)

1897

Sect. II.-DESCENT AND INHERITANCE.

1. Birkbeck (W. L.) Historical Sketch of the Distribution of Land in England with Suggestions for some Improvements in the Law. viii+100 pp. 8vo.

1885

Saxon and Norman Law of Succession-Entails-SettlementsPrimogeniture, etc.

2. Brunner (H.) Das anglonormannische Erbfolgesystem; ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Parentelenordnung nebst einem Excurs über die älteren normannischen Coutumes. 88 pp. 8vo. Leipzig.

1869

3. Cecil (E.) Primogeniture. A short history of its Development in various countries and its practical effects. 16 + 231 pp. 8vo.

1895

4. Clerke (W.) Triall of Bastardie. Annexed, a Table of the Leuitical, English, and Positiue Canon Catalogues, their concordance and difference. (16) + 102 pp. Tables.

4to. Islip.

1594

1878

5. Cooper (C. J.) Short view of the history and consequences of primogeniture in England. 8vo.

6. Croke (A.) Report of the case of Horner v. Liddiard, 1799. With an introductory Essay upon the theory and the history of laws relating to Illegitimate Children. (3) + viii + 189 pp. 8vo. 1800

Hale (Sir M.) De successionibus apud Anglos; or, a treatise of hereditary descents. 8vo. 1699, 1700, 1735 This is also printed as chap. xi. of the learned author's hist. of common law.

8. Hartland (E. S.) Primitive Society. The Beginnings of the Family and the Reckoning of Descent. v + 180 pp. 8vo. 1921

Sets out the facts and arguments which support the now challenged matriarchal theory.

9. Hooper (W.) Law of Illegitimacy, including an Historical Account of the Bastard in Mediæval Law. xii + 244 pp. 8vo.

1911

10. Johnston (A. W.) The Alleged Prevalence of Gavelkind in Orkney and Shetland. 3 pp. 8vo. [London.] 1910 Reprinted from the Saga Book of the Viking Club.

12. Kenny (C. S.) History of the Law of Primogeniture in England and its effect upon Landed Property. vi 71 + ii pp. 8vo. Cambridge.

1878

Yorke Prize Essay.

13. Laurence (P. M.)

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Law and Custom of Primogeniture. vii 161 pp. 8vo. Cambridge.

1878

Yorke Prize Essay.

Settlement.

8vo.

14. Neate (C.) History and Uses of the Law of Entail and

1865 15. Nicolas (Sir N. H.) Law of Adulterine Bastardy, with a Report of the Banbury Case and of all other Cases bearing upon the Subject. xvi + 588 pp. 8vo. 1836 "The first attempt which has been made to collect all the Authorities and Decisions on the Law of Legitimacy in this country, and to deduce from them the history and present state of the law on that important subject."-Preface.

Sixty cases are reported, ranging from the 13th to the 19th century, four of which are not reported elsewhere.

16. Robinson (T.) Common Law of Kent; or, Customs of Gavelkind, with appendix concerning Borough English. xxiii + 300+ (15) pp., 8vo., 1741; 2nd edit., xx + 300 +(16) pp., 8vo., 1788; 3rd edit. by John Wilson, xxxi 421 pp., 8vo., 1822; new edit., with precedents of Feoffments by Infant Heirs in Gavelkind, etc., by J. W. Norwood, (2) + XX + (1) + 201 pp., 8vo., Ashford, 1858; 5th edit., by C. D. Elton and H. J. H. Mackay, xxxv + 266 pp., 8vo. 1897

Contains many extracts from early assize rolls.

17. Sandys (C.) Consuetudines Kanciæ; a History of Gavelkind and other remarkable customs in the County of Kent. xvi + 352 pp. Fac-sims. and geneal. table.

8vo.

1851

18. Shore (T. W.) Study of the Settlement of England and the Tribal Origin of the old English People. 8vo. 1906 Includes a chapter on customs of inheritance.

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