Injustice of the Law of Succession to the Real Property of Intestates

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Ridgeway., 1855 - 148 Seiten

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Seite 115 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Seite 20 - But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Seite 84 - That for their country would have toil'd, or bled. O great design! if executed well, With patient care, and wisdom-temper'd zeal. Ye sons of mercy! yet resume the search; Drag forth the legal monsters into light, Wrench from their hands Oppression's iron rod, And bid the cruel feel the pains they give.
Seite 65 - Children grew disobedient when they knew they could not be set aside : farmers were ousted of their leases made by tenants...
Seite 103 - ... and invented ways and means how they might accumulate and gather together into few hands as well great multitude of farms as great plenty of cattle, and in especial...
Seite 73 - To improve land with profit, like all other commercial projects, requires an exact attention to small savings and small gains, of which a man born to a great fortune, even though naturally frugal, is very seldom capable.
Seite 125 - Laws frequently continue in force long after the circumstances, which first gave occasion to them, and which could alone render them reasonable, are no more. In the present state of Europe, the proprietor of a single acre of land is as perfectly secure of his possession as the proprietor of a hundred thousand.
Seite 84 - The toils of law (what dark insidious men Have cumbrous added to perplex the truth, And lengthen simple justice into trade), How glorious were the day that saw these broke, And every man within the reach of right!
Seite 147 - When any Person shall, after the Thirty-first of December One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, die seised of or entitled to any Estate or Interest in any Land or other Hereditaments which shall at the Time of his Death be charged with the Payment of any Sum or Sums of Money...
Seite 125 - In those disorderly times, every great landlord was a sort of petty prince. His tenants were his subjects. He was their judge, and in some respects their legislator in peace, and their leader in war. He made war according to his own discretion, frequently against his neighbours, and sometimes against his sovereign.

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