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HE everal gradations and tages, requiite to form a complete title to lands, tenements, and hereditaments, having been briefly tated in the preceding chapter, we are next to conider the everal manners, in which this complete title (and therein principally the right of propriety) may be reciprocally lot and acquired: whereby the dominion of things real is either continued, or transferred from one man to another. And here we mut firt of all oberve, that (as gain and los are terms of relation, and of a reciprocal nature) by whatever method one man gains an etate, by that ame method or it's correlative ome other man has lot it. As where the heir acquires by decent, the ancetor has firt lot or abandoned the etate by his death: where the lord gains land by echeat, the etate of the tenant is firt of all lot by the natural or legal extinction of all his hereditary blood: where a man gains an interet by occupancy, the former owner has previouly relinquihed his right of poeion: where one man claims by precription or immemorial uage, another man has either parted with his right by an antient and now forgotten grant, or has forfeited it by the upinenes or neglect of himelf and his ancetors for ages: and o, in cae of forfeiture, the tenant by his own mibehaviour or neglect has renounced his interet in the etate; whereupon it devolves to that peron who by law may take advantage of uch default: and, in alienation by common aurances, the two coniderations of los and acquiition are o Rh