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true, is nine points of the law in most parts of the 

 world. Here, to the strong, it has always been 

 something more. Such a title, therefore, might be 

 good as regards possession ; but that it could create 

 an absolute property in the soil that it could 

 confer immunity from revenue for all time to come, 

 is an idea that could not, under such circumstances, 

 enter into the day dreams of a single individual liv- 

 ing under such a form of Government j and, conse- 

 quently, it never did. 



