Encyclopaedia; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of . ording to thatnileof the 4?w ot nations, recognifed by the laws ofRome, ^lod nuUius ejl, id rations naturaH occupaittlc:!K\diitir. Th s right of occupancy, fo far as it concerns realproperty, hath been confined by the laws of Englandwith-na very narrow compafs; and was e-ntendsd onlyto a fingl; inflance; namely, where a man was tenantpour attire .ff, or had an elfate t^ranted to himf-!f o
Encyclopaedia; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature; constructed on a plan, by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises of . ording to thatnileof the 4?w ot nations, recognifed by the laws ofRome, ^lod nuUius ejl, id rations naturaH occupaittlc:!K\diitir. Th s right of occupancy, fo far as it concerns realproperty, hath been confined by the laws of Englandwith-na very narrow compafs; and was e-ntendsd onlyto a fingl; inflance; namely, where a man was tenantpour attire .ff, or had an elfate t^ranted to himf-!f only(v^ithout m; his lieirs) for tlie life of anotherman, and died during the l:fe of cijliy que vif, orhim by whole life it was holden ; in this cafe, he thatcculd fii ll enter on the land, might lawfully retaiathe polieirion io long as ce,^uy q:ie vii lived by rightof occupancy. This feems to have been recurring to firfl principles,and calling in the law of nature to afcertaiii the pro-perty of the land, when left without a legal it did not revert to the granter, who had partedwith all his intcreft, fo long as cejluy qm uic lived; it > did i Bramiiis OBSERAATORY Plate-CCrXIAJlI. JtSrrt f ,r. J/larrlitt Jc. o c c r 177 ] Occupancy, did not efcheat to the lord of the fee; for all efche^ls~~*— roiill be .it the abfiikitc entire iee, and not of any par-ticular crtate carved out of it, much lefs of fo minutea remnant as this: it did not bek)nj; to the grantee;for he was dead : it did not defccnd to his lieirs ; forthere were no words of inheritance in the grant: norcould it velt in his executors; ior no executors couldfuccecd to a freehold. Belonging therefore to no-body, like the hixreditas jacem ot the Romans, thelaw left it open to bo feized and appropriated by thefii 11 perfon that could enter upon it, durin;;; the life ofcejlny que vie, under the name of an ccupanl. Butthere was no right of occupancy allowed, where theking had the reverfion of lands :
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