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It includes a man's rights in rent over his own body, life, and reputation. 4. Property; that is, a person's rights of dominion over land and movables, includ ing fixtures and animals, and also including patentrights and copyrights and their like, which may be described as rights of dominion over indeterminate objects. All primary property rights are rights in rem as distinguished from rights in personam. 5. Contracts; that is, the rights of one person against another arising from voluntary agreement. 6. Status; that is, the law governing exceptional classes of persons, as infants and lunatics. 7. Pro cedure; that is, such matters relating to the en forcement of primary rights as cannot be conveniently treated under the preceding heads. 8. Rules of Construction, Definitions, and General Prin ciples. 9. The Law of Nations; that is, the quasi law governing the nation's relations with other nations. This classification is adapted to our own country. In a country in which property rights in men — that is, slavery, and property rights in public offices — exist, the classification is equally applicable, although the minor divisions would differ in the two countries. Rights are primary, i. e. given for their own sake; or remedial, given in substitution for a violated primary right or to enforce a primary right or another remedial right It is assumed that in the exposition of each primary right the remedial rights arising upon its violation will be treated, except where they may be more conveniently stated under the head Procedure. As a duty never exists without a right-holder to en force it, who is either a private person or the State, it is unnecessary to consider duties apart from rights. The transfer of property by will and descent falls under the head Property. The family relations fall for the most part under the head Status. The vari ations of law which are caused by the absence of persons or things from the national territory or by the occurrence of some transaction abroad, that is, the subject sometimes denominated Private Interna tional Law, is broken into parts, and is distributed to all the great heads of the foregoing classification. Russf.ll H. Curtis.

These forfeited articles were called Deodands, from Deo-dandum (to be given to God); and Britton tells us, in his " Pleas of the Crown," that the intention of the forfeiture was that nothing which was the immediate cause of so awful an event as the death of a reasonable creature should seem to go unpunished; but this assertion of the early lawyer has been much disputed, for the law allowed no deodand upon the death of an infant under years of discretion; thus favoring the idea that the in tention of these forfeitures was simply to procure the means of conducting a religious ceremony after the death, and for the benefit of the soul of the deceased; for no mass or other purgation was necessary upon the death of an infant. The rules relating to deodands are not by any means free from obscurity, either as to their origin or intention. If anything without motion was the cause of death, only that part of it immediately connected with the death was forfeited; but if the body was actually in motion, the whole of it became a fleodand. Thus, when a man climbing into a cart at rest fell off the wheel and was killed, the wheel only was the king's property; but when in another case the cart was moving at the time of the acci dent, the whole of it, with its load, was forfeited. The golden rule about these forfeitures was, "whatever moves to the death is a deodand; " and in the quaint old book called " Termes de la Ley," it is thus expressed, — "Whatever moved to kill the dead Is deodand, and forfeited." The most curious illustration of this rule is to be found in an ancient case, where a man fell from a mill-wheel into the stream, and was drowned. Every part of the machinery actually in motion at the time was declared to be a deodand; that at rest, not.

FACETIÆ. LEGAL ANTIQUITIES. According to ancient custom, whatever chattel was the immediate occasion of the death of any reasonable creature became forfeited to Holy Church, and was applied, before the Reformation, towards obtaining masses for the soul of the deceased.

While cross-examining Dr. Warren, a New York counsel declared that a doctor ought to be able to give an opinion of a disease without making mistakes. "They make fewer mistakes than the lawyers," responded the physician. "That's not so," said the counsellor; " but doc