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Excerpt from A History of the County of Brecknock, Vol. 2: Containing the Chorography, General History, Religion, Laws, Customs, Manners, Language, System of Agriculture, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions
It has already been observed that gavelkind implied an equal distribution of property among the male children of a family; but it is remarkable that in the British as well as the Irish usages, in such partition, no distinction appears to have been made between legitimate and illegitimate children, but the progeny of a wife, and concubine, took equal shares, and so strong was the connec tion subsisting between the foster father and son that it was especially provided by law that if a villain should take the son of a Baron to be fostered with the Baron''s consent, such child should be participator of the estate of the villain equally with his own sons.
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It has already been observed that gavelkind implied an equal distribution of property among the male children of a family; but it is remarkable that in the British as well as the Irish usages, in such partition, no distinction appears to have been made between legitimate and illegitimate children, but the progeny of a wife, and concubine, took equal shares, and so strong was the connec tion subsisting between the foster father and son that it was especially provided by law that if a villain should take the son of a Baron to be fostered with the Baron''s consent, such child should be participator of the estate of the villain equally with his own sons.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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