Alas it ever will endure."


Upon this passage is the following confirmative note: "Cheating will
always prevail, in defiance of all human laws, for it cannot be avoided,
but so long as contracts be suffered, many offences shall follow
thereby."--(_Doctor and Student_, c. 3.) In buying and selling, the law
of nations connives at some cunning and overreaching in respect of the
price. By the civil law, a just price is said to be that, whereby
neither the buyer nor seller is injured above one moiety of the true and
common value; and in this case the person injured shall not be relieved
by rescinding the sale, for he must impute it to his own imprudence and
indiscretion.

The origin of _Fee-tail estates_:


"The expression, fee-tail, was borrowed from the feudists, among
whom it signified any mutilated or truncated inheritance from which
the heirs general were cut off, being derived from the barbarous
word _taliare_ to cut.--(2 _Blac. Comm_. 112.)


_Fines and Recoveries (as fund and refund_,) are like the poles, arctic
and attractive. Of the latter is the following _quid-pro-quo_ anecdote:


"A physician of an acrimonious disposition, and having a thorough
hatred of lawyers, was in company with a barrister, and in the
course of conversation, reproached the profession of the latter with