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A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States

estates, is sometimes understood to mean all kinds of property; but its more limited signification, includes only such estate as has descended in the same family; and in a still more confined sense, it is only what has descended or been deviscd in a direct line.