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   1. 2 Mod. 319.
   2. Vinn. In Inst. l. 2. tit. 1. § 15.
   3. 1 Hal. P. C. 511, 512.
   4. Bro. Abr. tit. Propertie. 29.
   5. Ff. 6. 1. 5.
   6. L. of N. l. 4. c. 7.
   7. 7 Rep. 17.
   8. Bracton. l. 2. c. 1. 7 Rep. 17.
   9. Inst. 2. 1. 15.
   10. Finch. L. 177.
   11. Crompt. of courts. 167. 7 Rep. 16.
   12. Puf. l. 4. c. 6. § 5. Inst. 2. 1. 14.
   13. l. 2. c. 1. § 3.
   14. Bro. Abr. tit. Propertie. 37. cites 43 Edw. III. 24.
   15. 9 Hen. III. c. 13.
   16. 1 Hal. P. C. 512.
   17. Lamb. Eiren. 275.
   18. 7 Rep. 18. 3 Inst. 109.
   19. Bro. Abr. tit. Trespass. 407.
   20. 1 Hal. P. C. 512. 1 Hawk. P. C. c. 33.
   21. "Si quis felem, horrei regii custodem, occiderit vel furto abstulerit, felis summa cauda suspendatur, capite aream attingente, et in eam grana tritici effundantur, usquedum summitas caudae tritico co-operiatur." ["If any one should kill or steal a cat, being the guard of the royal granary, the cat shall be suspended by the end of its tail, its head touching the floor, and they shall pour on it small measures of wheat until the tip of the tail be covered."] Wotton. LL. Wall. l. 3. c. 5. § 5. An amercement similar to which, Sir Edward Coke tells us (7 Rep. 18.) there anciently was for stealing swans; only suspending them by the beak, instead of the tail.
   22. Carta de forest. 9. Hen. III. c. 13.
   23. 7 Rep. 17. Lamb. Eiren. 274.
   24. Cro. Car. 554. Mar. 48. 5 Mod. 376. 12 Mod. 144.
   25. 9 Rep. 58.
   26. Ibid. 59. Lutw. 92.
   27. 9 Rep. 59.
   28. 1 Leon. 273. Skinn. 389.
   29. 1 Roll. Abr. 607.
   30. Cro. Jac. 245.
   31. 3 Inst. 108.
   32. The same idea, and the same denomination, of property prevailed in the civil law. "Rem in bonis nostris habere intelligimur, quotiens ad recuperandum eam actionem habeamus." ["We are supposed to have a property in our goods whenever we can have an action to recover them."] (Ff. 41. 1. 52.) And again; "Aeque bonis adnumerabitur etiam, si quid est in actionibus, petitionibus, persecutionibus. Nam et haec in bonis esse videntur." ["All things to which we have a right by action, petition, or prosecution, are justly reckoned among our possessions. For these also appear to belong to us."] (Ff. 50. 16. 49.)
   33. 1 Equ. Cas. abr. 360.
   34. Mar. 106.
   35. 2 Freem. 206.
   36. 1 P. Wms. 290.
   37. Litt. § 282. 1 Vern. 482.
   38. Litt. § 321.
   39. 1 Equ. Cas. abr. 292.
   40. pag. 193.
   41. 1 Vern. 217. Co. Litt. 182.