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 382 poible implications. And herein there is no ditinction between the rules of law and of equity; for the will, being conidered in both courts in the light of a limitation to ues, is contrued in each with equal favour and benignity, and expounded rather on it's own particular circumtances, than by any general rules of poitive law.

thus we have taken a tranient view, in this and the three preceding chapters, of a very large and diffuive ubject, the doctrine of common aurances: which concludes our obervations on the title to things real, or the means by which they may be reciprocally lot and acquired. We have before conidered the etates which may be had in them, with regard to their duration or quantity of interet, the time of their enjoyment, and the number and connexions of the perons entitled to hold them; we have examined the tenures, both antient and modern, whereby thoe etates have been, and are now, holden: and have ditinguihed the object of all thee enquiries, namely, things real, into the corporeal or ubtantial, and incorporeal or ideal kind; and have thus conidered the rights of real property in every light, wherein they are contemplated by the laws of England. A ytem of laws, that differs much from every other ytem, except thoe of the ame feodal origin, in it's notions and regulations of landed etates; and which therefore could in this particular be very eldom compared with any other.

ubject, which has thus employed our attention, is of very extenive ue, and of as extenive variety. And yet, I am afraid, it has afforded the tudent les amuement and pleaure in the puruit, than the matters dicued in the preceding volume. To ay the truth, the vat alterations which the doctrine of real property has undergone from the conquet to the preent time; the infinite determinations upon points that continually arie, and which have been heaped one upon another for a coure Rh