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Updated: May 6, 2025
But as they, from the opposite reasons, were not easily brought to consent to such a provision, it was therefore couched in his act under covert and obscure expressions; and the judges, though willing to construe that statute as favorably as possible for the defeating of entailed estates, yet hesitated at giving fines so extensive a power by mere implication when the statute DE DONIS had expressly declared that they should not be a bar to estates-tail.
Upstairs in his room he got out his few elementary text-books, and began to read with a sort of sullen determination; but he had not gone very far in the 'descent of an estate-tail, before he shut the book up in a passion: 'I can't read to-night, he said savagely; 'it isn't easy to hug my chains all at once; it will be a long time before I come out strong on estates-tail. I loathe it!
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