Injustice of the Law of Succession to the Real Property of Intestates |
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accumulation acres Adam Smith aristocracy Belgrave Square Bill brothers and sisters cause classes common law consequence cruel cruelty cultivation deceased descend destitute dispose divided effects eldest England entails equally evil farms father favour feel feudal law force fortune France freehold estate give hands heir Henry VIII House House of Lords improve increase injustice instance intestacy justice labour landed property landed proprietors law of succession leasehold legislature Lord Campbell Lord John Russell measure ment misery mortgage mortgage debt moveable estate nation natural nearest of kin owner parent pauperism payment peasant personal estate personal property personalty perty population possession prejudice present law primogeniture principle privilege property of intestates proposed real estate real property realm remain remarks repeal rule says Scotland shew shewn small proprietors soil sons statute Succession to Real tillage unjust wealth whole wretched younger children
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 65 - Children grew disobedient when they knew they could not be set aside : farmers were ousted of their leases made by tenants...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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!
Page 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...
Page 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.