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The Rights
Book II.
kind of property being of a mongrel amphibious nature, originally endowed with one only of the characteriſtics of each ſpecies of things; the immobility of things real, and the precarious duration of things perſonal.
Chattel intereſts being thus diſtinguiſhed and diſtributed, it will be proper to conſider, firſt, the nature of that property, or dominion, to which they are liable; which muſt be principally, nay ſolely, referred to perſonal chattels: and, ſecondly, the title to that property, or how it may be loſt and acquired. Of each of theſe in it's order.