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 Ch. 2. of water; by a grant of which, nothing paes but a right of fihing : but the capital ditinction is this; that by the name of a catle, meuage, toft, croft, or the like, nothing ele will pas, except what falls with the utmot propriety under the term made ue of; but by the name of land, which is nomen generaliimum, every thing terretrial will pas. Rh