The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-09-21 00:00:00

THE STMTRI3IRTiIar,

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________ __,......-_____. ILO OWllef of each reoopied estate et uttereet received an
I have said that the plan .. at Brewton for ',me The Dei's Tuulegnape gives the fallow:in; particulate
inetranieut midst:loos:his title, which eJS, In fact, e winder-
taining the votes given wont 1 .. invariably employed. I tne unterennate young lady : part or duplicate of that portion which related to the tame .
ought to have said it will be Invariably employed by con- After coming to Loudon, the poor erl soon font I and this contained a printed form of agreement for tratisfer,
semative mendidates ; for, id eourse, a Llneisl candidate
who has in time, past adv,cated the rem, mity lee a corral
her slender meape exhausted, ware wee compelled to ceseharge or eurrender, as the case might be, lobe signed lip
Ballot. coati not, has heen reads lave, pawn or sell her watch in order to purchnte the neer& the parte 3 Mheriever they re wit be, in the presenuT ,f notaries
now that the Ballot
Weller 1,1.,, ahal{.l with cones of life. It was after thie that she Called at the or commusei. mere for teethe Ad:sensate' tratminitted 'by poet
place agents at the doers ud the
for registration? It was an lilSidiuuspieitioa thus to iestitute
the duty of discovering mid marking how sach elector bee Consigate, and acquainted the Vioe.Corimi
a comparison betwe-n his own VMS an I
voted. With these farts. Mr. Nunn asked if she wanted any. embemt as the anther of the Art id use.erailettotli: ell:este%
- --- - -- thing, to which she answered, 'No" W hat she did here was flit one of low, but rattier .4 °Metal mechanism.
THE LICENSING ACT IN OPERATION. want, aha added, was a situation. yin Nunn accord- There Wllll greet danger lest the acktioeledged failure of
iugly gave her an introduction to Mr. Oascoyne, man- Lord Westliery's Act of 1562 aud of the me re,poieling Act
of 1860, applied to Ireland, shiald be mistaken ee involving
taugeerreoofr
not
hladsn,
ug,iihsbm,e.H..,otceltabilted.whether she went
itil:etrufa.ilhurteboil, tgliree.pti Iptireihoil plepiii: rheagilisitraoti !till
Lii.filt,i i14,_,.
ut1,41 IL rterai sd
Dm' this time she had bean truing very bard to get at all in efliwe of timse ili.,a ,i. bur o .ly allyinV flies 010,
i
into e se as a honeekee pt r. Tula is evident from stteuipfine to bleed toilet the meoceye•ibue principles
an ap cistern whieb the !wide to a eenrienian reridiug of le god ratioe of user:pc, mud re. etre:ion of fete As
no teeth aal the method w 11 he hed leen Ind retie dal in
neer linhurg.ll. Who W.-, ie Want of a permon of that
7tfiblls!lime. in the enutrailke ...'onles lied worked with
deserip i.e. She contineeiea'ed with this gentleman
early in July, under the mune of Lillian f.dekie. At t''ir;el enr,fmn iity,
.0: lit,sii. pdci:ilictreel,,,,,f,ift•
thirre,.,ia: IVI V 1.33 tar to
his requoit the c riled awl heti a personal iriterviee Sir it Torre's:next clescethedtbat eiethod llri'e- on
lend,
with him, lastisig tin or fifteea minutes. She ref:fended Ti the iegeineet issta the more roe, lit origin of titles le
to him a good deal of her UttatY, reentioning that she the Colonies e ebserred that many ef the titles thin. .'e .:It
had managed a large heel in Msin,unw, -Victoria. with. tied ttl heeP among the an et valuable, dated 1,;,, ic f..,,
From her repreeentat ions the gen tlemanunderstood that 'rem or nPoonin sun Mt* win in tar 4ke WW41441W4 tWitle
ehe had only recently c, nue Australia, more especially an voeyancing in tl,e e Irli, r days, eled ill part to the freenencY
01 cizltieg with feud lu new couutries, complicetious slid
she made no allusion to America. Her application for
the place of honeekeeper not being succeseful, she lauflideul iliete":oinsetlYsvcillaittht:lllXnwshulciehrlarccri ° upon
wrote on the 10 Ii of the .111 e month to the gentleman, comparativiy recent titlesrY. Adnuittinz If
el'af,' howueveoen,
expreiehug Faho at the " horrid words, that she did not that *brie are in this country eau.- titles la, I. efe, tivriy
suit," and repe iting e praee " don't eu.t" in a evidenced that it would be mieiode to place them ou the
rer, letter melted that tetles f t_lie liks charactsr mere
manner which shawed th h
that she was distressed at her gia
hsiaelitoir iii knoWll ill the Colonies, and here as there thee
want of succesd. She went on to ex olaiu certain die tree- isn't t.o be cleared by efflux iii time ureter the Smtute
malts in her family, about which she had spoken ort izu:K f Liati:6
Sir R Torrent covicluded by canine atteution to the Blue-
to him, and stated that when she was seventeen
3, ears of ai,,e she was engaged to be married hook containing reports from the Gorer .eu of South A au_
to a solicitor. Her mother, however, disapproved of lien COIOIIIOI on Use WOrkilig -nd prcirress"s of the spZintrof
the match on the ground that lii r intended was a cuitr,vsieinucien.,Mrztihs tAruatitimi 11 4, titleci Xi aeG.a.wrlkier.„gE,i,iittnibi;
system since its cotemencemeet in 1853 had been most saris-
'Roman Catholic; and she was consequently sent to
live with some relatives in New South W ales. While
there her sweetheart was ac,identally killed, and she flfe:;,,royii
istireetlienild,e—; r'le have several casee Of estates for
wore widow's weeds "for him who vats dearer to her pointment, and do n'ual eel nirrsrit:htuessetw,litruTstyl: o(fleall-
than father, mother, and all the world." In the letter tog with them." The Torrent' system had been lunperitillou.
in .ineetion she further mentioned that all the in South Australia twelve years, in New South Wiles
. z.
tii e
'the
11.3" y..1,1),0i
7,
.rodt,th
hifd ist di.hBll2
ser3o; :tie
tot,
The.,7ll,B,,ghg,lrtge :
tarht:e.
wanted was a situation for a few years until she seven years; in Tasinauia, thdit y ears ; and In Ve.
esiuld go back (to Australia, it is understmel) ti.uti,:rogniuodp, Tear'
wirh one of her brothers, and volunteered the
information that her family had been buried for m,rutel bl; vile.
, re11.0,......,—t,. aTthpe.prtrioec: ddl.trale
ilsgs of
for
itol,i.dtrepa,,d,):,
several hundred years in Melroffe Abbey. She also of the Torreue system by the inhabitaets of tbea atilve:
referred to 1313111 C lawyers rewiding in Edinburgh. On of
ra:nesclrot
the lith of July she wrote again to the same gentle-
man, still expressing her disappointment at hie refusal, iLienirieown business. A saving of 19i. in the p nod sterling
tiles, laud,
dwiiiiya.eLt.p,r,iityiglod.i soili,it-
‘f conveyancing. Tas wealth
which she represeuteel wee unexpected. 'lf he feared of ttas'eon'mltm"e„waility"'holi:ebe%el
Is-
she did not know how to cleau bwite, iron shit to, anl filmic value, as buil leg
cook a diutier, Ac.. lie leflA wrong. There were
isr
tcitilael.eltalayrewTtebl
Imperfectildutip r 01 teniel.." ellT
ruin 'l
valuet'cll 'Otte' lia li d sondefects
harder lessone to be Leal ned iu life than house-
hold duties, and if she was too youn.: the could braid bailie of credit has been reeled by the extramoinery facility
the tithe
tlio,r anddrapidity with which
her hair and wear a tuop cap." Agate, on the 19th hg ilecurity with which equitalde mortgages and registered
July, she once more wrote to this gentleman,
saying elle was quite aware of the indelicacy of the siimilific Mon of title's, sorthmat ilea% ftr'eietl'd'er Sit' hrirth
timing heraelf tie his notice ; still, would he not
rt:hicuecedkssatlomeerfeithiLly‘si:tairdaey
niatsouebiaxtesag:
have.ro.ao.i
41
vt grantee direct
procedureen inr e t
reducediron,, tilett
oo n.: Ceini, :::
iirl i,:,,,3
ut,,h,,,nde,
give her a trial? In this letter she alluded to the weary
walks she had had alter sitnetions, rem:irking, "if ehe
hail been lees plain she might have attracted more
sympathy." She also profresed her willingness to do An interesting discussion followed, In which Mr.
anything in the way of work, thee:eh elle would not Freeman declared Sir It. Torrens' layer to be one of
lose her self-respect or that of her fellow. creatures, the moot complete and valuable ever read before the
If engaged by this gentleman as his housekeeper, Association.
she felt sure he would not hare to complain
of any want of obedience or humility on her
part. Perhaps see might be asked why she had
not written to her parents. She had clone so, but
had not received any answer to three letters, and she
felt herself almost a stranger to them. Nearly every
article if value ehe haul possessed (she next stated) had
gone, Includiuo her mat h and several artielee of
jewellery, but le would not murmur if the could only
get some honed employment. Her last hope now was
tremblingly waiting his answer. The letter, of which
the foregoing is a 911MILlery, is signed" L. E. Lockie ;"
awl in a postscript she says: "I enclose some lyric
vereee I COllll/08e1 ISA night. While looking out of
my window I saw a star, and wondered if it could pity
my wretchedness. I have written fur an Australian
journal."
The handwriting of the letter is that of an imper-
fectly educated woman. The etyle le very feeble, and
many words are mis-spelt. The following is an exact
copy (4 the "lyric words" which she enclosed :
" Tell me hesrld of hope to ealm and bright
Sheltie; amid the gloom of night
Tell me all 'tell while enhenced I stay
Shall my future he enideui by hopes bright ray
Tell Ah, stsr, where the future guides
Shall I ruse through lute or stay, where peace abides
Tell me t u come what my life ehall be
A race with thee to meet etereity
9 ,all 1 wakeing dread evil tied dream dispair
A Ild start for to Orel it is roily here.
shall I leave in my path the stale of crime
Or shall my name in the fiends of history shine
Soy shall I witn joyos glee begin
& start with horror frit the gluf if sin
it hoping start loweri with a cry mai a prayer
& trirk hark to find that sorrow in there
shall damns cif sorrow appeer at my bet
Of hopm that are blighted of friendship's deceit
shall eve be dispiseul for the charm
Shall my pride lose Its atrenth
army heart lose its power,
All star while your light eor my heart holds its sway
are the joy. of iny youth all doomed to .Itcay
Or like toy twinkling compard its that come and go
or the clouds that summed tine like garments 015110 W
Now e isappwaing—LOW drifted away
avvilLhel
Shall the j 'ye ce my path dill ,Infrer Cr stey
.in.rinegdatortioi,i,ehi,uifdtels.algyfeuiru.ie
nd'etr the spell
h
or my sins still I.ppear on this till stricken birth
Of pride & of fear cheif agmits of hell.
Fiends theareite that make eretehed my life
when conencience reposes renewing the strife
Am! doomed for to wonder nose for to save
& weary of life sink into the grave
humors ed &Unwept all alone
out even a fi iced to rues head-stone
Shall I al-mg the path of rein be driven
to sell nip soul and lone all hopes of heaven
Oh star ifs a mercy to tell loom, late
let the waning come ere yet tis to late.—B. L L.
"(It is badly written but !was never a good writer of
ladies bawl)"

ployed
be I.'

te;p-;ettagr

The Commiiitners of Inland Revenue have, in am
corilance with Section II of the new Idoeitsiog set,
issued en order that all traders in wines, spirits, and
beer shall allix their nom. e anti the cloture of their
business for which they are licenied in 8,11110 conspi-
cuous part of their premises, the letters to be distivict
and not less than an inch in dei•th, .• tis to be legihle
to Venoms passing along the thoroughfare. If the
tr,ler hikes out is six day te licenoe, he dnust add the
words "Nut to sell on Sundays.'"
. . . ,

It may be mentioned that at the prteent tium. in
consequence of the heavy floes that have been in
flirted since the piawirig of the new At, the House of
Detention, Cltrkeuwed, London, is In erally crowded
with persons who, having been convicted of drunks -
nem, and not able to imv the hues, have, of necessity,
been remitted to prison for various terms.

At the annual Brewster Sessions of the itsng Ashton
(Bastol) ttivision of Sowersetshre, Sir Arthur Elton
presiding, the county magistrates determined to
strictly abide by the bourn of the Act VAI far as their
division was concerned. Sir Arthur Elton observed
that publicans were not obliged to serve intoxicating
drinks. They had hi supply meat and drink, but they
were not obligtd to serve anything intoxicating. The
magistrates refused every application made to them
for extension of the hours under special circumstances;
and although the Act provided for such extmpt‘ons,
where large bodies of men were constantly at work
during the night, they thought they had better try
one year's experieuce of the closing hours named in the
Ant.

The police at Maidstone have been making a sys-
tematic raid upon the publicans, who from the
lint have manifested at this place a decided indisposi-
tion to take the new enactment submissively. The
result is that three publicans have been brought
before the locol bathes for booing kept their houses
open after eleven o'clock at night, and severally
fined 20.. 101.1 costs, in addition to repinnutils.
At the annual licensing day just held, the solicitor
to the loc 41 li'censed Victuallers' Association made a
general application for an extension of the hours of
opening at 'Maidstone, slat ',resented a petition on be-
half of the Foresters of the town, complaining of the
hardship which they would experience if they were
obliged to turn out of their courtkonven before their
business was done. It was also asked that the beer-
Ito tees should be enabled to open at five its the morning,
as nudes the old Act. After deliberation, the magis-
trates decided upon letting the law take its course.

At the adjonrued Licensing Sessions at Birming-
ham on Friday, memorials were pr. sented to the
icagistrates on behalf of the Licensed Victual-
lers' Society and of a public meeting held in the
Town-hall, praying for extension of the time
to midnight Mr. Young, of the Oxford Cheuit,
appeased on behalf of the Licensed Victuallers, and
Mr. G. 13111, a working man, as npokesukan a the
meeting. The Mayor, in communicating the unagis-
trates' decision, said that the justices saw no resewn to
alter the resolution panned by them at the Licensing
Session on the 23rd ult., with reference to the hours of
closing, and that even if they were so disposed the
provisions of the Act would prevent their oriving a
notice for the consideration of the subject until the next
Licensing Sessions.

tratrs'.

At the Guildhall, Weymouth, on Friday, a depute,- 1
tiou from the Licensed Victuallers' Association of the j
town waited on the Mayor (Mr. Janice Robertson) laid j
some of the borough magistratee, complaining of the j
injustice f the new Act in compelling the licensed I
victuallers to close their hens, aat eleven o'clock. The j
arguments adduced in favour of being allowed to keep ;
open until twelve were that the trains didi not arrive
until after eleven, and that publicans had to keep I
their servants about until midnight, when at the same
time they were not allowed to do ally businear. Wey• ,
mouth was so pecuqarly situated, owing to the late ;
arrival of trains and the departure of the steamers j
to the Ctiannel Island, that they considered the ma-
gistratws ought to give them the extra hour. The
Mayor, in giving the decision of the Bench, said they
eould not take upon themselves the responsibility of
departing from the Act of Parliament one iota. They
felt there were olausea in the Ant which they did not
approve, but at the same time their duty was very
clear, and that was to a iminister the law as they had
sworn to do. If the licensed victuallers had in grievance
they ought to petition Parliament with the view of
a taring the law.

The Solicitors Journal says t—
" The Brewster Sessions are now over, and the
operation of that part of the new Licensing Act which
regulates the house of closing may be pretty wea ettti-
mated. In the great majority of cases the justices have
wtopted the hours fixed by the Act. A good deal of very
unreasonable complaint has been made against them for
adopting this ctsuree; but it is plain bloat they have put
on the Act the only constriction which could honestly
Ice given to it. Worn the Legislature fixed an hour for
closing, but gave a liberty to the justices to vary it. it
was evidently their duty to conaisier that hour 811 the
one which was to prevail unlese some clear and decisive
reason existed for an alteratiou. Anti it is equally
clear that it would be a great hindrance to the satis-
factory working of the Act if any considerable want of
uniformity exbted ; such a diversity road scarcely
appear to be (onal would seldom be) otherwise than
csipricioua, and must lead to s continual effort on the
part of the publicans in the districto where the hours
were shorter to extend them to the larger limits al-
lowed elsewhere. As might have been expected, the
bond fide traveller is again giving trouble. The de-
cisions as to what constituted a bond fide traveller
under the earlier statutes are of course equally applic-
able under the new law (section 24) ; nor does there
seem anything to alter the effect of the decisions
in Davis r Scrace ' s R.. 4C. P., 172), Caoley r.
Burton ' flo 11, 5 C. P , 489), Sm., as to the onus of
psi. It is not he expected that the Courts mill re-
tr. its their steps to the extent of throwing on the
publican the burden of slowing that every person he is
proved to have served during the boars of closing was a
bond fide traveller. This would be so palpable an in-
justice (the fact being one which it will be often int-
ptissible for him to know) that nothing short of ex-
press words would do it. It is, lin doubt, hard to
stsuggle against the words of section 51, and sub section
4 ; but a victory having been already won over the
equally strong words of Jervia' Act (hand 12 Victoria,
cap. 43, rec. 14), the same feat will probably not be
f eund impracticable only by reason of the words hese
occurring in the same Act which creates the offence.
And if it lies on the complainant to prove that the
person served was not a bond fide traveller, there is no
ground on which proof of sic belief to the contrary can
be thrown on the publican; although the proviso at
the end of subsection 4, making the defendant and his
wife competent to give evidence, would prevent any
hardship arising from requiring him to furnish thas
proof. The Act should have imposed the penaity on
supplying drink tc any person other than a bond ride
.traveller or lodger, unless the publican should satisfy
the jmitices that he reasonably believed the person
supplied to answer that description."

SIR R. TORRENS, M.P., "ON THE
TRANSFER OF LAND."
On Saturday, at the Social Science Congress at
Plymouth, the paper which N,V, f the
greatest importance in the section was that read by Sir
I. Torreus, M.P., "On the Transfer of Land." It
was re:iently announced that a signal mark of the
favour of the Crown had been conferred on the Mi so-
ber for Cambridge, in recognition of his services in
establishing the Land Transter Act new in tome in
AcAralia. The AttornerGeneral, President of the
Department of Jurisprudence and Amendment of the
Law, took the chair, and Mr. Daniel, Q.C., Mr.
Serjeaut Cox, Mr. John Hodgkin, Mr. Freeman, and
other legal members of the Congress listened to Sir IL
Torrens' exposition of the working of the Australian
I Land Act with great interest.
. . _

Sir R. Torment said he had undertaken to bring tho ques-
tion of applyiug to estates and interests in land the princi-
ple of conveyancing by registration of title again under the
review of the Association He was now eliabled to do so
with the additional light thrown upon the euldect through
the labours, rif the 11 yal Cemmission on the Laud Transfer
Act of 1562 (Lord Westbury's), an I snore receutly by the
earliamentaey returns exhibiting the working of the cor
respotrgeg Oct in 'reheat (Record of Titles Act, Ireland,
28 and 29 Victoria), and by the B ue-book, containing the
reports of Governors of the Anstralien milonice, testify
log the complete euccess of the came principle there, ap-
plied naer a different method. He explained the radi-
cal distinction between " conveyancing by deed" and
" conveyancing by registration of title." The first In-
volved delay, uncertainty, and expellee ; while title by
registration was a tangible ascertained fact. The entry in
the reorient was cor elusive. There was nothing to deduce or
inter, or, In the coeduct of ordinary dealings, to necessitate
Professional a, ebtance. The time eciended in such dealings
n• ed not exceed that required for transacting the like deal-
ings with railway scrip. or with property iu shimpieg, at d
the instrument evidenciiig title would rarely exceed the size
of a sheet of letter paper. They would find a perfect example
of "conveyauchie by registration in title" in that great com-
mercial port. " You need but walk,"said Sir R. Torrens, "down
to the Custom-honse, and there you may see an ordi-
nary mercantile clerk, without airy difficulty and with per-
fect security, conducting transfers and mortgages of pro-
perty in shipping, and the time occupied in thus dealing
with a vast property such as that of the Greet Eastern
',meld not exceed half an hour. Here I may he told that
land, in eagential characteristics, differ from shipping pro-
perty, and therefore may not be dealt with in the some way.
To which I reply that the essential dgtereuce, immobility
aid rlivisiiilily, for from preventieg, do greatly locilitate
dealing with land by revietration ri title, especially as
regards the complicationof the record, through the frequency
of pent ownership arcing out of the incivieibility of shipping
property.
" For an example of the results of this principle when sp
p 1 is Ito laud, I must, I regret to say. regr to transections
outside these Wanda. A few weeks heck a friend of mine
exprewed surprise at meeting a gentlenmit whose arrival
nem Andras was not CapeCtrfl for some months Yee,'
toed this gentlernae, 'it Is all nehat; to that admirable
Act of your friend Torrent' that I ani hire so &MIL Or ly
two day. bef a.e the packet sail- it I had air offer for my estate
M., linen/line purchaser went Wltll la, to the Lauds title
Office, end In line than an hour the businese was temmeted I
get a chertne fertile purchase-moem , snit lie got an indefeasible
le to Violate', :eid as we rid the hersenees omeelves, the root
Ives only three or in ur pounds.' Annie, a gentleman residing in
Laueceston. Taemanda, writes to me as follows Your Act
has proved a great blessine to as here. Recently I pur-
chased a sheep slat( n for nip are, and Ming £5lOO short of
the puroluisemoney, I mortgaged some land for the amoulit.
The trensaction was completed in less than hell an hour, and,
act did the Meant, is myself, , the while expense was only
lb. , which, under the did law, WOUla have I.een £2O or £3O,
and I should have considered myself lucky if I got it dotal
under a month or two.'
" Officlel duties connected with the transfer. of property in
shippiete suggested to me in 1053 the feasibility of applying
the same method to dealings with land, though It was not
until 1856 that, failing in my endeavours to induce any of
prefeeskinal friends to take the matter in bend, I eisayed
what to a mete Lyman was a very formidable task, and
broutht out my scheme in the forni at a confess, a
eery defectiee one, as I too timidly followed the laneuege CI
well as the forms of soy model, the Shipping Act. This bill
iii all amended shape was introduced into the Legislature of
oath Australia in 1867, and become lain"
He next reviewed the attempts made to apply the sy,tem
of registration of titlee to laud in this country. Ho added :
It is a strovee and damaging condition arising eut of the
system id conveyaiicing peculiar to this weary that a Mail
may be in possession under what the most punctilitins con.
veyamer woubi Remit to be a perfectly sere Melding title,
mei yet not he inns position to enforce a corer rot for eele on
au unwiling purchaser owing to seine minty technical de-
fect. Such a condithin dimieishes serious y the value of lend,
Mid serves no purpose lace that of impels lug 102a1 gentlemen
with pretexts for requisitions and inquietes to be reeeeted
every time the uroperty Ls dealt with—a sour,s of Income to
them, but of delay irritation, and expense to the landowner.
The remedy for this elate of thiu ire which reeistratien of title
off-rain our of the chief recommendaiions if tl at system,
Alia that it may with safety be en sorted to we have proof to
demonetratioe in the ex- erienc I of the Irish Melees Court ;
and the Australian Land Titles Commisslen. SI ore than one-
seventh of all the lands in Ireland hart been pawed through
the alembic of the Estates Court, with only one case of error
of sufficient importance to be worthy of notice ; and In
Amarelis no less than 18,233 distinct titles (a considerable
proportion of them complicated or blistered) have been
placed upon the rue red without practical blur), or injectoe
to any one. Under the system there lii feree, the requisi-
tions which the applicant for registratien Is required
to sethfy are—let. That he is in undisputed pie-ses-
sion 2d. That in equity and just lee he appears to be
rghtly entitled 31. lb .t he produces such evidence as
leads to the conclusbm that no pens'-- is in a !reside!, to
succeed in an action of ejrctment against him. 4th. That
the deem iptien of the parcels of fin is clear and accurate.
I hem being aatiefied, advertisement and the service of
retires calling upon all claimants to show cause Reebok the
apiLeant's title within reseemahle time are found to
he
sufficient stifeiruarda against risks arising out id technical
defects and (in accordance with aa ameent practice under
English la.). in the ev.nt or ton-chains within the pm-
senhed period iudefeasible title is issued to the applicant."
Sir It. roses next xamined the report of the Et aal Com-
missien on the failure of the Land Tranefer Act of 1862 (Lord
Wrstbury's) mid their suggestiona for the alteration and im-
provement of that measure. After explaining the cumbrous
and involved mechanism net up for carrying this system into
operation, he contrasted with tibia own method, under which