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 ¬still, startled at something or other, but without either himself or his rider knowing what the devil it can be. — In such conjunctures there is no remedy but the spur, which is, however, by no means a sure one, as riders have been thrown. — Now this is no simile, but the very case itself: Not a peg would the judges move, and the great council being some how afraid to spur them, their judgment was neither reversed in the supreme tribunal, nor a new law passed to follow on the use through all its windings, so as still to make it the land itself. The conse- quence requires no lawyer's skill to point out. — The evil intended to be beat down continued, and the jurisdiction of the courts of law over the landed territory of Arinata was at an end for ever. From that period, almost all the estates throughout that great country were con- veyed to second uses upon the ingenious model of clerical C. which even after the clergy had no longer any interest in the contrivances, remained the almost universal mode of settling property — the legal proprietor in the land ¬being ¬