A view of society in Europe, in its progress from rudeness to refinement; or, inquiries concerning the history of law, government, and manners / By Gilbert Stuart.

  • Gilbert Stuart
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1778
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    * facere liberam, quod eft Widerboram, et legiti- c mam per garathinx, id eft, per libertatis donati- s onem; vel per gratuitam donationem, id eft 6 morgengabe; tunc intelligatur effe libera et legitima uxor, et filii qui ex ea nati fuerint legitimi he- 6 redes efficiantur.’ LL. Longobard. lib. 2. tit. i. L 8. Among the Longobards, the dower and the morgengabe came to be fynonymous, and were fixed at the fourth part of the fubftance of the huf- band LL. Longobard, lib. z. tit. 4. I might * A very Angular exception, to the dodtrine I advance m this note, is to be found in the records of England, and I am furprifed that it has efcaped the learned induftry of the writers whom I venture to oppofe. I truft, notwith- Handing, that my general conclufion is not to be affedted by it. The cafe, however, is fo odd, that I will give it to the reader in the words of my author. 6 John Camois,’ fays Camden, 4 fon of Lord Ralph Ca- 4 mois, (a precedent not to be parallelled in that or our own age), out of his own free 'will (I fpeak from the parlia- 4 ment rolls themfelves, Park 30. Ed. I.) gave and demifed 6 his own *wife, Margaret, daughter and heir of John de 4 Gaidefden, to Sir William Painel, knight; and to the fame € [William] voluntarily gave,granted, releafed, and quitclaimed, 4 all the goods and chattels 'which foe had, or otherwife hereafter * might have, and alfo 'whatever 'was in his hands, of the afore- * faid Margaret’s goods and chattels, with their appurtenances. 4 So as neither himfelf nor any other in his name, might, nor for 4 ever ought to clahn or challenge any inter eft in the aforefaid 6 Margaret, from henceforth, or in the goods or chattels of the & faid Margaret : Which is, what the ancients faid in one 4 word, ut omnia fua fecum haheret, that fhe fhould take away * with her ail that was her’s. By occafion, of which grant, 4 when
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