118 CASE OF THE POST-NATI OF SCOTLAND. 



&quot; ditus insitivus,&quot; or &quot; adoptivus,&quot; and is never by 

 birth, but only by the king s charter, and by no 

 other mean, come he never so young into the realm, 

 or stay he never so long. Mansion or habitation 

 will not idenize him, no, nor swearing obedience to 

 the king in a leet, which doth in-law the subject ; 

 but only, as I said, the king s grace and gift. To 

 this person the law giveth an ability and capacity 

 abridged, not in matter, but in time, and as there 

 was a time when he was not subject, so the law doth 

 not acknowledge him before that time. For if he 

 purchase freehold after his denization, he may take 

 it ; but if he have purchased any before, he shall not 

 hold it : so if he have children after, they shall in 

 herit ; but if he have any before, they shall not 

 inherit. So as he is but privileged &quot; a parte post,&quot; 

 as the schoolmen say, and riot &quot; a parte ante.&quot; 



The fourth and last degree is a natural born 



subject, which is evermore by birth, or by act of 



parliament ; and he is complete and entire. For in 



the law of England there is &amp;lt;l nil ultra,&quot; there is no 



more subdivision or more subtle division beyond 



these ; and therein it seemeth to me that the 



wisdom of the law, as I said, is to be admired both 



ways, both because it distinguisheth so far, and 



because it doth not distinguish farther. For I know 



that other laws do admit more curious distinction of 



this privilege; for the Romans had, besides &quot;jus 



&quot; civitatis,&quot; which answereth to naturalization, &quot;jus 



&quot; suffragii.&quot; For although a man were naturalized 



to take lands and inheritance, yet he was not enabled 



