CENTER FOR CONSIDERATION |
| DIRECTOR Yvonne Skillery |
ABOUT
It remains to consider the nature of an advancement, such as will be subject to the rules just mentioned : And on this head, there is an important difference between the custom of London and that of the province of York : According to the former, the advancement, whether complete or partial, must the custom of arise exclusively from personal estate : In the establishment of the custom, the citizens of London had no regard to real property, on the supposition that a freeman would not purchase land, but would employ his whole fortune in commerce: (d) If, therefore, a citizen settle a real estate on a child, it shall be no advancement, (e) nor, although it be expressly made for that purpose, shall it bar him of his orphanage part : (/) Nor if money be given by the father to be laid out in land, to be settled on the son on his marriage, shall it be deemed personal estate, nor any exclusion: (