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I J.... 4, ‘ g . I . • * • 4111.1 4-1 4 ' ,/ I/ 4 • s -•• •. .4•4 , 11" cith umiuta 13.211. ) WHEAT FOR PLYMOUTH. VICTUALLING OFFICE, June 30, 1829. THE CO VWSSIONERS f or VI C T UALLING his MAJESTY'S NAVY, 4-c. do hereby jive Notice, That on Tramiel:Lir, the 16th day of July next, they will be ready to receive Tenders In writing (sealed up), and treat for ONE THOUSAND QUARTERS OF WHEAT, To weigh Sixty Pounds to the Bushel. To be delivered into the Victualling Stores, at Plymouth, within one Month front the date of the Contract. Samples of not less than One Quart each must be produced by the Party tendering. The Conditions of the Contract may be seen at this Office; and at the Victualling Office, at Plymouth. Each Tender must specify the price In words at length, and be delivered before One o'Clock on the Day appointed; and the Person who makes the Tender, or some Person on his behalf, must attend to answer when called for. M. WALLER CLIFTON. xIDNIRALTY OFFICE, Axe 15, 1829. 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We are inquiring whether the length of deed, which causes much expense and perplexity, may not be ma. ' serially abridged by making certain powers and obli gations legal incidents to certain estates and interests to which they are now almost uniformly annexed (though we feel this to be a matter of much delicacy). or by recommending prescribed forms of conveyance, to which, in certain cases, a given effect shall be im puted. From the time when a written instillment vas re• quire) to pass an interest in land, that alone should have been sufficient ; and we are of opinion that all estates should now be made transferable by simple deed without the forms ot, livery of seisin or entry, or the contrivances by way of substitution lir them. which are all in reality secret and useless in the deduction of titles. There will then no longer be any occasion fir two deeds to effect one transfer, and the now almost universal assurance by lease and release will immediately become obsolete. We think that it should be permitted to create directly, by deed, certain interests which can now only be created indirectly through the Statute of Uses, or by way of executory devise in wills, such as a fee simple to arise on the determination of a prior conditional fee simple, estates of freehold to commence infaturo, and estates for life and other limited interests in terms of years. We conceive likewise that it would be advantageous to take away the various impediments to the legal transfer of the right to arise on breach or conditions, and of certain contingent and executory in terests in land. which can now be legally created by deed, but are not allowed to pass from one to another, or only in equity, or by indirect shifts. Tie n ecessity should likewise be obviated roe the technical contrivance 'commonly called Trusts to preserve contingent reolain dens, used to prevent the wrongful or casual destruction if lawful estates. But these impiovemet:t. must be introduced with the greatest caution, that they may be made to harmonize with the eAsblibheJ principles of conveyancing. At present the true ()lacer of real property, labile wrongfully dispossessed, is not allowed to devise or transfer it; such restraints, we think, may be safely re lazed. In rude times they had some colour of policy. as they tended to prevent wealthy and powerful men from oppressing persons in possession by acquiring liti gious claims to their estates; they have long merely operated oppressively to persons out of possession, by preventing them from disposing of their property, and sometimes depriving them of the means of recovering it. The laws against champerty and maintenance likewise seem unsui , ed to the present state of society. We have it in contemplation to propose a uniform mode of executing powers of appointment, which we trust will be sufficient to guard against fraud, and will get rid of various niceties which now perplex practi tioners and often lead to injustice. The subject of illusory appointments has also oc cupied our attention; and it has occurred to us that the best mode of getting rid of the mischiefs produced by the present state of the law on this subject may be, by rendering every power of appointment exclusive, unless a certain amount or proportion to be given to every object be specified by the donor ot the power. The raking law respecting devises appears to us to be very incongruous arid defective. The smallest por tion of freehold land can only be devised by a will, signed by the testator, and attested by three witnesses; while a will of copyhuld or of le tsehold lands, of what ever value, requires no witness, and not even to be signed by the testator. This distinction, from its technical nature, has never been understood by the public, and operates as a snare to the unlearned. Again, though cupyhold lands may be passed by a will made before the acquisition of them, yet some interests in co,syhuld lands, as the interest of a devisee or voluntary bonen- deree before admittance, are not devisable ; and estates in many manors cannot be affected by a will, unless the owner have transferred the legal estate to a trustee.— Although a will is supposed for many purposes to refer to the time of the testator's death, and although per sonal and leasehold and copyhold property to any amount may be disposed of by a will properly framed before its acquisition, yet from the construction lat upon the Statute rf Wills, a will has no operation on freehold lands, unless the testator's interest existed at the publication of the will, except in some very peculiar cases, by means of the equitable doctrine of election, a doctrine perplexed by many niceties, and to be applied only by means of a Chancery suit. If .he rightful owner of land be disseised after making his will, or if, being a remainder-man, his remainder is di vested by the disseisin if the tenant for life, the will is inoperative; nay, if the testator, after retaking his will, even with the intention of confirming it, does an act by which he is supposed to have acquired a new estate in the premises devised, the will is revoked. The dot. trine by which effect is given to a ills of freehold land, as from the day when they are supposed to be re-pub lished by the execution of codicits or other means, which were introduced to mitigate these hardships, ac complishes a very uncertain and partial remedy, and introduces new mischiefs. The numerous questiors which arise upon the construction of wills and the fre quent instances in which, by an adherence to certain technical rules, never understood but by lawyers, the intention of the testator, which Courts always profess to observe, is completely defeated. ale a reproach to our law. By requiring words of inheritance, or some , thing equivalent to pass a fee, and by refusing to allow an estate for life to go to a man and a remainder to his heirs as purchasers by the same will, au estate for life is held to pass where a fee was clearly intended, and on the contrary, a devisee meant to sake only a life estate is allowed to dispose of the fee. We are employed in considering whether there may not be one form prescribed for the execution of all wills; whether all interests in real property may not be made devisable; whether there be any objection to allow a will of realty, like a will of personalty, to operate, when framed for that purpose, upon all property of which the testator may die seised, though acquired after the execution of the will; whether disseisin or the 'divestment of estates, or any act done by the testator without the intention to revoke his will, should interfere with the exercise of his testamentary power ; and wise-, titer some amendments may not be proposed in the, PRICE SEVENPICNCR. rules for the construction of wills in cases in which ex• perience teaches that the legal interpretation of certain forms of expression is at variance with the sense in which these forms are ordinarily used, whereby liti gation may be diminished, and there may be a greater probability of the testator's intention being effectuated. Without presuming to suggest any transfer of the jurisdiction over wills of personalty to the common law tt ibunals, we think it deserving of consideration whether a mode may not be provided of trying the validity of will of leasehold lands by a Jury, instead rf its being decided by the opinion of the Judge of an Ecclesiastical C..utt, formed upon written depositions. The expense and vexation now occasioned by the necessity for obtaining probate of a will or letters of administration, with a view to the assignment of trurt terms, and by such probates and letters of administra tion, when obtained from a diocess or peculiar jurisdic tion, being absolutely void if the land does not lie within the diocess or peculiar, or if it can be proved th it the testator or inte•tate, at the time of his death, had goods to the value ot five pounds in another diocess or peculiar within the same provirce, have caused very general complaints, and call loudly for a remedy. The present mode of marshalling assets in equity, or of distributing the various sorts ot property of a person deceased among the different classes of his creditor, gives rise to long•protracted and hatras►ing litigation; and it may be fit to consider whether any remedy can be found short of making real property subject to sim ple contract debts, and if not, and if this remedy would be effectual, whether it may not be our duty to recom n end it. The state of the law respecting the right of a creditnr who has obtained a judgment for his demand over the real property of his living debtor, appears likewise very objectionable, whether regard be had to the compli cated and dilatory relief afforded by digit, where an attempt is made to enforce the judgment, or to the con tinuing charge of dormatit judgments, which make the land often in effect unsaleable. and add to the expense and risk of every transfer. This is a subject seeming to us to require our attention, as well as that of the Commissioners appointed by your Majesty to inquire into the practice of the Courts of Common Law. A very serious impediment is occasioned to the transfer of Real Property from the unlimited lien on all lends belonging to persons indebted or under obliga tion to the Crown. and from there being at present no means of ascertaining who are so indebted or bound. or the extent of their liability. We shall strive to devise a plan by which greater security may be given to pur chasers without endangering the rights or remedies of the Crown. We have been earnestly requested to consider of some plan for obtaining and preserving evidence of pedigree. Since the visitations of the heralds have ceased, this. as far as public documents are concerned, has depended entirely upon parish registers of marriages, baptisms, and burials. But these have been and probably will continue to be kept very inaccurately ; they give no certain information* as to the time of birth ; they seldom contain a description of the parties by which identity can be established ; and they are liable to the insuperable objection, that being of an ecclesiastical nature, and recording only marriages. baptisms, and burials, at which the clergy of the Established Church officiate, there is a considerable portion of the population of the country to which they do not at all apply. A civil re gister of births, marriages, and deaths, including all classes and religious persuasions, and giving the addi tions, trades, or professions, and residences of the parties. seems exceedingly desirable, exists in other States, and we trust may be established in England. But no measure has been suggested to us from so many different quarters, or has been so earnestly pressed upon us, as a general registry of deeds, whereby it is contended that every transfer of land, and every encum brance upon it. would be placed within the means of knowledge of every.person having occasion to deal with te; all rights might be suffered to prevail (as natural justice requires) according to their priority; the use of outstanding legal estates, and the expense of keeping them on foot and transferring them would cease ; the investigation of titles would be materially abridged and simplihed, and fraud in all transactions respecting real property would be effectually prevented. We are aware, however, of the numerous and weighty obstacles which present themselves to the establishment of a plan so ex tensive, and, in crder to make it effective, so novel in this country. The experiments which have been tried in two English counties and in Ireland have been so imperfect, both in principle and detail, and have keen so marred by the doctrine of equitable notice, that they afford no criterion of the utility of the measure, or the means of accomplishing it. We found that information upon this important subject must be sought not merely from the practitioners of English law and from Engle- h treatises, but from Scotland, where a genera term) has been long established, which is the great boast of the law of that country, but from the Continental States, in many of which a similar institution has been intro duced with more or less success. ‘Ve have taken steps for obtaining this information in the most authentic shape; and we shall anxiously consider whether the plan can be safely adopted in a country of so great ex tent as England, where transfers of land are more fre quent than in any other part of the globe, where the law of real property must ever remain a peculiar and com plicated system, and where the disclosure of private affairs may be dangerous to commercial credit. We before stated that we were using our best endea vours to ascertain whether a Statute of Limitations may not be framed for the church, and whether church pro perty may not be rendered more beneficial both to the possessors and to the community. We here expect great assistance from the answers to the questions which we have had the honour to address to the Right Reverem: the Bishops. We are aware that even the subjects to which we have now adverted as being under our consideration, form, as it were, but a second stage in the progress of the in quiry committed to us, and that there remain behind many important branches of the Law which it will be our duty to investigate —as, for example, the Law or Guardianship of Infants; the inconvenient and opp:es sire restrictions of the jurisdiction of Courts of Justice over Real Property, in cases where infant heirs are in- terested ; the mutual rights of proprietors of undivided interest in land, whether as coparceners, joint tenants. or tenants in common, and the mode of making par tition between them; the Law relating to covenants, running with the land, and particularly as to the title deeds of estates; the Law relating to Stamps upoc LITERATURE. BULLETIN UNIVERSEL DES SCIENCES. We have just perused a very interesting pamphlet, r recently published in Paris, containing a discourse on the necessity of a regular and active intercourse between all the friends of science throughout the civilised world. Baron Ferossac is the author, and the discourse was l pronounced at the sitting of the members of a newly formed Society at Park, for the purpo.e of giving sta bility and effect to that gigantic periodical work, the Bulletin Universal des Sciences, &c. which has been esta blished about five years. The pamphlet urges In very eloquent terms, that for the general benefit of science a centre should be found, and a medium of com munication opened, in order to eolkct together. in one grand depot, the scientific wealth of all nations. The Author, with this view, pleads that no be tter situation than Paris can be devised, and no better language than the French imagined, for the organ of com munication ; and nothing can be more completely arranged to I answer the end proposed than the Bulletin thsireesel, which has already received the sanction and merited the applause of a vast number of individuals residing in different parts of the Continent, and who are interested in the cause of science. The universal phi lanthropist cannot but be pleased with such a plan, while the patriot may perhaps aro, in favour of making the capital of his own; country the point d'opprsi of such an undertaking. Still this attempt on the part of the French deserves every encouragement, if it were only on the principle that the mere fact of such a society being established operates as a further remove from national prejudice. and may produce a concentration of reciprocal interests and mutual regard among all people. The progress of science, says the Baron, depends greatly on the knowledge of facts already well authenticated ; and the circulation slew of these facts, through every channel, may save those en gaged in the pursuit of some particular branch of science a world of time, lost in first attempts and dreumlocutory essays. The esta blishment, therefore, of an active and regular intercourse of cor respondence on the part of those who are engaged in the advance. agent of science, must have the effect of increasing the zeal and progress of the whole community; and thus the public mind, el cited by the periodical display of its Inventive powers, will be kept in a continual state of activity, will acquire fresh energy at every step, and will be effectually prevented from making any retrograde movement. The prosperity of society itself partly depends on the active and regular communication of scientific facts, as by their numerous ap plications they modify it in ne inconsiderable degree. This truth is new more apparent than ever, since it is found that commercial success is the result of the proper application of the Arts, and that that success, at its highest point, assumes the mastery of the world! The knowledge of a single scientific fact may also turn the scale of fortune In favour of an individual, or of an entire nation, inas much as it may lead to the discovery of a new machine, or to some easier and more economical method of obtaining a result, through which means the national or individual wealth may be rapidly augmented. Such are among the arguments employed by the Baron Femme, in order to bring mankind to a proper sense of their own advan tage, and to endeavour to bring tog e th e r suc h an assem bl age o f talent as never before has congregated or been pledged to the sup port of a periodical work. We have said that the Society is already formed, but we be liver its ranks are not yet complete. The Baron Ferussac is now in town we bear, in fulfilment of a promise he makes In his Discourse, to pay a visit to our Metropolis, and which is given in the following terms:—" My intention Is to visit Great Britain, in order to be the bearer of our common wishes. We shall no doubt be entitled to a bearing In that classic country, where the spirit of association so greatly prevails. The estimable characters of every grade which England possesses, will acknow ledge that we are not inSuenced by a local or an exclusive feeling ; on the contrary, we come to ask them to join haad in hand with us In the same cause, and by our example to induce other nations to follow in the same track. They will see all the Importance and all the benefits attached to an institution cesceived in the spirit of universality, and intended to promote the general interests of del fixation." The Society consists of a number of Shareholders. among wkoea we distinguish the names of the weU known General Massena, the talented Count Lanjuinais, Me Baron Du n, Silvestre de Secy. the Minister. Baron Dames; the printer, Finales Uldot. has twelve shares; the Baron himself, as original proprietor, holds thirty shares ; and the great bookselling establishment of Treottel, Wertz. and Co. hold twenty shares each. The Society is styled " The Societd Anonym., on Balleth Universal peorle propagation des Connais sance', Scientifiques et Industrielles." PARLIAMENTARY PAPER. REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS ON THE LAW OF REACf.foiiiii. (Concluded from our Paper of Tuesday.) We now beg leave to conclude, by briefly noticing the subjects which we are proceeding to investigate, and upon which we hope, after due deliberation, to report to your Majesty. It seems to us that the scheme which has been re cently proposed, of entirely abolishing the feudal doc trine of tenures, would introduce universal confusion, and that since 12 Car. 2. c. 24, no incident of tenure remains which is oppressive or vexatious, as between the Crown and the subject. Yet there are tenures and cus• toms subsisting, which materially interfere with the beneficial enjoyment and transfer of the ,oil, and we deem it very desirable that all lay fee should be held by the simple and eacellent tenure of free and common socage, and should be descendible, devisable, and trans ferable, according to the rules of the common law. With this view we are inquiring what objections there may be to the abolition of the custom of Borough Eng lish, by which, in some parts of the country. on the death of the father, the land descends to the youngest son instead of the eldest; and of Gavelkind, by ohich in .others, and particularly in the county of Kent, it descends among all the sons equally, in exclusion of female., and which is attended with various other anomalies. Tne division of the iwerest in the soil between the Lord and tenant arising from copyhold tenure, certainly obaructs improvement, and is a frequent source f .f liti gation. The gradual enfranchisement of copyholds with a due regard to the rights of property, is a subject which has occupied much of our attention. Even where the tenure remains, some alterations may perhaps be in troduced, by which its inconveniences may be miti gated, such as by establishing in all manors the common law rules of descent, dower and curtest' ; making a uniform law for the devise of freehold and copyhold ' lands ; allowing leases at rack rent to be granted by a copyholder•for a limited time without license from the ' Lord ; providing a compensation for the barbarous right to seize beriots on the death of the tenant ; and regulating the conflicting claims of the Lord and tenant with respect to timber and mineral*. Much learned ingenuity has lately been exercised, and with too much success, in contriving expedients for evading the salutary rules against perpetuities; and we propose to consider whether the spirit of theca rules may not be preserved and enforced, by defining the class and limiting the number of persons during whose lives (with a period superadded for minority and gestation) land may be rendered inalienable. A portion, by no means inconsiderable, of the litiga tion respecting real property in Courts of Equity arises from defective contracts upon sale and purchase, and from a specific performance being decreed where the requisites of the Statute of Frauds have been disre garded. We think it worthy of serious consideration, whether it should be permitted to any person, in any