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 218 G. kEAINE (Rs. 5,000) which is occupied and worked by his family: This holding remains a joint family proporgy. Ig is now proposed go exgend ghe scope of ghis law, presnmsbly in directions already taken in other European countries (,vide post). ghe ghe the In Germany the Law different States. In Germany of Inheritance Prussia l, he law varies greatly in and custom fayour formation of large estates, while in Senthorn Germany reverse is the case. In W,ten, berg a certain moderate por.ion: deft nod by law, of the father's property passes tO each chfid, and over the remainder the father is allowed liberty of disposition. 8o far as is possible, an effort is made to leave a small farm intact to a single son, but it frequently happens that the daughters are on their marriage allotted a share of the paternal land, and as 'the husband is probably the possessor of a piece of land elsewhere in the commune, the sub-division and intersection of land became serious, and it was estimated in 1880 that the land in Wurtemberg was held by 280,000 peasant owners with less than b acres each, as against 160,000 proprietors of estates of more than5 acres. each. Bavarw part of the State has adopted the law of in the father ubdivided. In his "Report on the Tennre of Land .Duchy of Hesse" submitted to the Foreign drea, a. nd .over the remainder he can exercise a testamen- tary dmpomton. Great efforts are made by the peasants to keep their farms inter, but the land has become Mr. R. B. D. Morier makes the following interesting remarks: "In the great majority of cases the holdings are dis- persod over the arable land of the community in single parcels intersected by those of other holdings. In many pars of the Grand Dnchy the sub-division arising from these causes has reached an intolerable pitch, and various con- solidating acts have been passed for the purpose of remedy- ing the evil. These acts have, however, only been partially successful, and a new measure is being at the present moment prepared which, it is hoped, will prove more efficacious. In the districts in which the consolidated farms .are situated, immemorial custom has ruled that the property m its entirety descends to one' child, almost  invariably I Agraria:, lji,slatior i: rma: during th et century by B. B. D. Metier (t).   aw a um o/Ptjf,tir by the Hon. O. 0. Brek. much in the Grand Office in 1870, inheritance laid down by the Code Napoleon, and other part the law ordains  that on the death of the one-third to one-half of his property (according to the size of the family)must be divided equally amongst his chil-