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 of poor Parish-Clerks, should have more certainty in it, then that which belongs to the Professors of the Law?

Some Notice is essentially necessary to the Title of every thing that is vendible: To make a Title, is to take the Property of a thing from one Man, and put it into another, of which it is necessary that other persons should have Notice, as well as the Parties, or else the Purchaser can have no Title because there is no Witness to give Evidence of it, in case the Seller should deny it. And as some Notice is absolutely necessary to all Title, so the more Notice the better is the Title; it were better for every Man who is Owner of an Estate, that all Men knew his Title, and then