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eftate, is naturally encouraged to make more folid 

 improvements upon his land, than where he is 

 only tenant at will, or upon a ftiort term of years. 

 — He will alfo be better enabled, in the firft in- 

 fiance, to marry, and much encouraged to do it, 

 becaufe he has a more certain profpect. of fup- 

 porting a family; for, in cafe of his own death, 

 his wife or child would not be deprived of the pof- 

 feflion. — Thofe who deny the force of this argu- 

 ment mud, I think, wilfully fhut their fenfes againft 

 reafon and convittion. 



Another fair argument in favour of copyhold is, 

 the greater certainty of its title, and the cheapnefs 

 of its conveyance compared to that of freehold, 

 which is no trifling confideration. 



