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In Calabar their legal rights over property, such as slaves, are meanwhile considerably in abeyance, and they are put to great expense during the time the spirit is awaiting burial.
Esther found her home a heap of smoking ruins; some of the neighbours who recognized her gathered round, expressing their sympathy and regret. But she seemed comparatively careless respecting the loss of their property; and in answer to their kind expressions, could only ask, "Have you seen my father? do you know where my father is?"
He was aware, of course, that the property he had been managing had been purchased originally partly with her fortune and partly out of her husband's pocket, and that half of it was therefore hers and half of it the property of Marcus and himself; but that by her husband's will the control and management were hers absolutely.
"She might have done so, but she loved her husband too well, and preferred living single." "Humph! We have no such notions here. What was your father?" "A gentleman, who lived upon his own estate." "Did he die rich?" "He lost the greater part of his property from being surety for another." "That's a foolish business. My man burnt his fingers with that.
If all the Pendragons sailed about anyhow, he thought there would be too much chance of natural catastrophes to prove anything. But if we went to sea one at a time in strict order of succession to the property, he thought it might show whether any connected fate followed the family as a family.
But choose: will you have my blessing or my property? 'Your property, certainly, answered the son, and his father nodded. 'And you? asked the old man of the girl, who stood by her brother. 'I will have blessing, she answered, and her father gave her much blessing.
Brown was equally astonished and embarrassed by the circumstances in which he found himself, possessed, as he now appeared to be, of property to a much greater amount than his own, but which had been obtained in all probability by the same nefarious means through which he had himself been plundered.
The demand made upon the ratepayers of Bury to expend; £60,000 on sewage-works, a large proportion of which would go to increase the ground value of Lord Derby's property, leads them to realize the justice and expediency of a system of taxation of ground values which shall prevent the rich landlord from pocketing the contribution of the poor ratepayer.
He suspected that Jeph would have consideration enough for his sisters and for the property that he considered his own to be unwilling to show the way to their valley; and he also reflected that it would be well that whatever might happen to himself should be out of sight of his sisters.
Inviolability of the person, residence, property, and correspondence. Liberty of conscience, liberty of the press, liberty of public meetings, and liberty to form associations. Direct and secret universal suffrage for the election of members of the National Assembly, and departmental and municipal councils. Local self-government. The authorities under the constitution are: 1.
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