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1. Ff. 26. 4. 1.
2. Co. Litt. 88.
3. 3 Rep. 39.
4. Co. Litt. 88.
5. Moor. 738. 3 Rep. 38.
6. 2 Jones 90. 2. Lev. 163.
7. Litt. §. 123.
8. Nunquam custodia alicujus de jure alicui remanet, de quo habeatur suspicio, quod possit vel velit aliquod jus in ipsa haereditate clamare. [The guardianship of no person shall of right continue in him, of whom a suspicion may be entertained that he can or will claim any right in the inheritance.] Glanv. l. 7. c. 11.
9. Ff. 26. 4. 1.
10. The Roman satirist was fully aware of this danger, when he puts this private prayer into the mouth of a selfish guardian: — pupillum O utinam, quem proximus haeres Impello, expungam. [O were my pupil fairly knocked of the head! I should possess the estate if he were dead.] Perf. 1. 12.
11. c. 44.
12. 1 Inst. 88.
13. This policy of our English law is warranted by the wise institutions of Solon, who provided that no one should be another's guardian, who was to enjoy the estate after his death. (Potter's Antiqu. l. 1. c. 26.) And Charondas, another of the Grecian legislators, directed that the inheritance should go to the father's relations, but the education of the child to the mother's; that the guardianship and right of succession might always be kept distinct. (Petit. Leg. Att. l. 6. t. 7.)
14. Co. Litt. 88.
15. 1 Sid. 424. 1 P. Will. 703.
16. Salk. 44. 625.
17. Pott. Antiq. l. 4. c. 11. Cic. pro Murez. 12.
18. Inst. 1. 23. 1.
19. Stiernhook de jure Suronum. l. 2. c. 2. This is also the period when the king, as well as the subject, arrives at full age in modern Sweden. Mod. Un. Hist. xxxiii. 220.
20. Co. Litt. 135.
21. 1 Hal. P. C. 25.
22. 1 Hal. P. C. 26.
23. Foster. 72.
24. Stat. 7 Ann. c. 19.
25. Co. Litt. 172.
26. Co. Litt. 2.
27. Stat. 5 Eliz. c. 4.
28. Stat. 12 Car. II. c. 24.
29. Co. Litt. 172.