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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 "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." 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. 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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.) 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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. |