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 240 inherit. Thus, if it decended from Geoffrey Stiles, the father, the blood of Lucy Baker, the mother, is perpetually excluded: and o, vice vera, if it decended from Lucy Baker, it cannot decend to the blood of Geoffrey Stiles. This, in either cae, cuts off one half of the table from any poible ucceion. And farther, if it can be hewn to have decended from George Stiles, this cuts off three fourths; for now the blood, not only of Lucy Baker, but alo of Cecilia Kempe, is excluded. If, latly, it decended from Walter Stiles, this narrows the ucceion till more, and cuts off even eighths of the table; for now, neither the blood of Lucy Baker, nor of Cecilia Kempe, nor of Chritian Smith, can ever ucceed to the inheritance. And the like rule will hold upon decents from any other ancetors.

tudent hould bear in mind, that, during this whole proces, John Stiles is the peron uppoed to have been lat actually eied of the etate. For if ever it comes to vet in any other peron, as heir to John Stiles, a new order of ucceion mut be oberved upon the death of uch heir; ince he, by his own eiin, now becomes himelf an ancetor, or tipes, and mut be put in the place of John Stiles. The figures therefore denote the order, in which the everal claes would ucceed to John Stiles, and not to each other: and, before we earch for an heir in any of the higher figures, (as № 8.) we mut be firt aured that all the lower claes (from № 1 to 7.) were extinct, at John Stiles's deceae.