ON THE LAWS OF ENGLAND. Book the Second. BY SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE, KT., ONE OF THE JUSTICES OF HIS MAJESTY'S FROM THE AUTHOR'S EIGHTH EDITION, 1778. EDITED FOR AMERICAN LAWYERS BY WILLIAM G. HAMMOND, DEAN OF ST. LOUIS LAW SCHOOL, AND LECTURER ON THE HISTORY With Copious Notes, AND REFERENCES TO ALL COMMENTS ON THE TEXT IN THE SAN FRANCISCO: BANCROFT-WHITNEY COMPANY, LAW PUBLISHERS AND LAW BOOKSELLERS. 1890. 7. Real and personal property distinguished................. 40 XVII.-Of Title by Prescription...... 50. Prescription and limitation......... Occupying claimants............... 51. Easements in gross. ........... 52. Prescription in corporeal hereditaments... 53. Prescription and lost grant.. XVIII.-Of Title by Forfeiture......... XXI.— Of Alienation by matter of Record. 66. Private acts as conveyances... 67. Interpretation of public grants.... XXII. Of Alienation by Special Custom XXIII.-Of Alienation by Devise......... 71. Devise as conveyance................ |