chattels.......

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Villenage or tenure by copy of court-roll...... 257 Legacies are to be paid before debts by shop

Court baron, with the use of it.......

257

books, bills unsealed, or contracts by word 266

What attainders shall give the escheat to the An executor may pay which legacy he will first

lord......

257

Or if the executors do want, they may sell

Prayer of clergy..

257

any legacy to pay debts.....

266

He that standeth mute forfeiteth no lands, ex-

When a will is made, and no executor nanied,

cept for treason.....

258

administration is to be committed cum tes-

He that killeth himself forfeiteth but his

tamento annexo.

266

258

Flying for felony a forfeiture of goods... 259 ARGUMENTS ix Law IN CERTAIN GREAT AND

Lands entailed, escheat to the king for treason 258 DIFFICULT Cases....

267

A person attainted may purchase, but it shall The Case of Impeachment of Waste.

268

be to the king's use.....

258

The Argument in Low's Case of Tenures.... 276

Property of lands by conveyance is first distri-

The Case of Revocation of Uses...

230

buted into estates, for years, for life, in tail,

The Jurisdiction of the Marches.

285

and fee simple....

259

TUE LEARNED READING OF Mr. Francis Ba-
Lease for years go to the executors, and not 10

con, UPON THE STATUTE or Uses, being

the heirs.......

259

his double reading to the Honourable So-

Leases, by what means they are forfeitable.... 259

ciety of Gray's Inn, 42 Eliz.......... 295

What livery of seisin is, and how it is requisite

to every estate for life.......

259 THE OFFICE OF CONSTABLES, ORIGINAL AND

Of the new device, called a perpetuity, which

Use of Court's LEET, SHERIFF's Torx,

is an entail with an addition.....

260

&c., with the Answers to the Questions

The inconveniences of these perpetuities..... 260 propounded by Sir Alexander Hay, Knt.,

The last and greatest estate in land is fee

touching the Office of Constables........ 315

simple.......

260

AN ACCOUNT OF THE LATELY

The difference between a remainder and a

ERECTED SER-

reversion..

260

VICE, CALLED THE OFFICE OF COMPOSI-

What a fine is..

261

TIONS FON ALIENATIOXS.

319

What recoveries are.

261

What a use is..

262

THE GREAT INSTAURATION OF LORD

A conveyance to stand seised to a use.

262

BACON.

Of the continuance of land by will....

262

Property in goods: 1. By gift. 2. By sale.

Editor's Preface..

329

3. By stealing. 4. By waving. 5. By

Introduction.

332

straying. 6.

333

By shipwreck.

7. By

Dedication..

forfeiture.

264

8. By executorship..

334

Preface .....

By letters of administration.....

265

Distribution of the Work..

338

Where the intestate had bona notabilia in

divers dioceses, then the archbishop of

SECOND PART OF THE GREAT INSTAURATION.

that province where he died is to commit

THE Noycm ORGANUM; OR, FIVE SUGGES

administration ....

265

THE INTERPRETATION

An executor may refuse the executorship before

NATURE..

3:13

the bishop, if he have not intermeddled

Preface.....

343

with the goods......

265

Summary of the Second Part, digested in

An executor ought to pay, 1. Judgments. 2.

Aphorisms....

345

Stat. Recog. 3, Debts by bonds and bills

Aphorisms on the Interpretation of Nature and

sealed. 4. Rent unpaid. 5. Servants'

the Empire of Man....

315

wages. 6. Head workmen. 7. Shop

The Second Book of Aphorisms on the Inter-

book, and contracts by word...... 265

pretation of Nature, or the Reign of Man 37)

Debts due in equal degree of record, the execu-

tor may pay which of them he pleases A PREPARATION FOR A NATURAL AND EXPE-

before suit be commenced.

266

RIMENTAL HISTORY

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But it is otherwise with administrators. ....... 266 A Description of such a Natural and Experi-
Property by legacy....

266 mental History as shall be suficient and

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MISCELLANEOUS TRACTS, (translated from Of the variety of the bodies which yield

the Latin.)

sound; and the instruments; and of

The Ebb and Flow of the Sea.

523

the species of sounds which occur.... 540

The Alphabet of Nature....

530

Of the multiplication, majoration, diminu-

Catalogue of Bodies attractive and not attractive 532

tion, and fraction of sound........... 540

Inquisition of the Conversion of Bodies...... 533 Of the repercussion of sounds and echo..... 541

The Masculine Birth of Time.......... 533, 534 Of the consents and dissents of audibles and

The History and first Inquisition of Sound and

visibles, and of other so called spiritual

Hearing......

535

species......

541

Of the generation of sound, and the first

Of the quickness of the generation, and ex-

percussion

535

tinction of sound, and the time in which

Of the lasting of sound, and its perishing and

they are effected........

543

extinction.....

..... 537

Of the affinity, or non-affinity, which sound

Of the confusion and perturbation of sounds 537

hath with the motion, local and per-

of the accessory aids and impediments of

ceptible, of the air in which it is car-
sound; of the stay of sound; and the

ried ....

513

diversity of mediums.....

538

Of the communication of the air percussed

Of the penetration of sounds....... 538

and elided with the ambient air, and

Of the carriage of sounds, and their direction

bodies, or their spirits......

544

or spreading; and of the area which

sound fills, together and severally..... 539 | INDEX.

545