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   1. Co. Litt.345.
   2. c.32.
   3. Dr & Stud.b.2.d.22.
   4. § 59.
   5. Litt. 1.
   6. See pag. 45, 47.
   7. of feuds, c.1.
   8. Co. Litt. 1.
   9. Praedium domini regis est directum dominium, cujus nullus est author nisi Deus. [The estate of the king is direct ownership, of which God alone is the author.] Ibid.
   10. Ibid.
   11. pag.148.
   12. Co. Litt. 1.
   13. Feodum est quod quis tenet sibi et haeredibus suis, sive sit tenementum, sive reditus, &c. [A fee is that estate which a man holds to himself and his heirs, whether it be a tenement or a rent.] Flet. l. 5. c. 5. § 7.
   14. Litt. § 10.
   15. See pag. 20.
   16. Servitus est jus, quo res mea alterius rei vel personae servit. [Service is that right by which my estate is answerable to the estate or person of another.] Ff.8.1.1.
   17. Co. Litt. 342.
   18. Litt. § 646.
   19. Litt. § 647.
   20. Litt. § 1.
   21. See pag. 56.
   22. l. 1. t. 9. § 17.
   23. Co. Litt. 9, 10.
   24. Ibid. 9.
   25. See Vol. I. Pag. 472.
   26. Ibid. 242.
   27. Co. Litt. 27.
   28. Flet. l. 3. c. § 5.
   29. Plowd. 241.
   30. Si quis terram haereditariam habeat, eam non vendat a cognatis haeredibus suis, si illi viro prohibitum sit, qui eam ab initio acquisivit, ut ita facere nequeat. [He who possesses an hereditary estate may not, by sale, deprive his heirs by consanguinity of it, if he be prohibited from so doing by him who first acquired the land.] LL. Aelfred. C. 37.
   31. Co. Litt. 19. 2 Inst. 233.
   32. Co. Litt. Ibid. 2 Inst. 234.
   33. Co. Litt. 19.
   34. 1 Inst. 19.
   35. 13 Edw. I. C. i.
   36. The expression fee-tail, or feudum talliatum, was borrowed from the feudists; (See Crag. L. t. 10. § 24, 25.) among whom it signified any mutilated or truncated inheritance, from which the heirs general were cut off; being derived from the barbarous verb taliare, to cut; from which the French tailler and the Italian tagliare are formed. (Spelm. Gloss. 531.)
   37. 2 Inst. 335.
   38. § 13.
   39. IInst. 19, 20.
   40. 7 Rep. 33.
   41. Co. Litt. 19, 20.
   42. 2 Vern. 225.
   43. 3 Rep. 8.
   44. Litt. § 14, 15.
   45. Litt. § 16, 26, 27, 28, 29.
   46. Ibid. § 21, 22.
   47. Ibid. § 24.
   48. Co. Litt. 25.
   49. Co. Litt. 20.
   50. Litt. § 31. Co. Litt. 27.
   51. Co. Litt. 9. 27.
   52. Litt. § 17.
   53. Ibid. § 19, 20.
   54. Co. Litt. 224.
   55. Com. Recov. 5.
   56. 1 Rep. 131.
   57. Co. Litt. 19. Moor. 156. 10 Rep. 38.
   58. 1 Rep. 131. 6 Rep. 40.
   59. 10 Rep. 37, 38.
   60. Pigott. 8.
   61. Year Book. 12 Edw. IV. 14. 19. Fitzh. Abr. tit. faux recov. 20. Bro. Abr. ibid. 30. tit. Recov. In value. 19. tit. Taile. 36.
   62. 11 Hen. VII. c. 20. 7 Hen. VIII. c. 4. 34 & 35 Hen. VIII. c. 20. 14 Eliz. C. 8. 4 & 5 Ann. c. 16. 14. Geo. II. 20.
   63. 26 Hen. VIII. c. 13.
   64. 4 Hen. VII. c. 24
   65. Co. Litt. 372.
   66. 33 Hen. VIII. c. 39. § 75.
   67. Stat. 21 Jac. I. C. 19.
   68. 2 Vern. 453. Chan. Pree 16