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 Publications for things done without Deed, as Fairs and Markets for Selling of Cattel, that the Purchasers may not be cheated: Publications in the Churches before Matrimony, and Registring after it, to prevent Bigamy. So the Law marks Felons in the Hand, that none may trust them.

And yet after all this, there is a Provision intended in the Bill for this Registry, whereby any one may Conceal the Uses declared of his Estate, yet so that there shall be some Notice taken of the Deed, by which the Uses are declared, that the Owner of the Land shall be incapable of Selling or Mortgaging his Estate, 'till he doth produce that Deed, whereby a Purchaser or Lender cannot be defeated.

The practice of the Law in Civil Causes is divided into three Sorts: First, The transferring of Titles, which is called Conveyancing. Secondly, The shewing forth and