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Self suspended
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the Common Law, as it would have been absurd to give possession by livery of seisin to one's self. This was found to be convenient, especially in the following example: It frequently happened that upon the death … Conveyances to uses legalized many dispositions which were altogether void at the Common Law, for uses might be suspended, revived, postponed, and accelerated in a way altogether opposed to the rules of the ancient feudal law. Amongst
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