Excerpt from The Common Law of Kent, or the Customs of Gavelkind: With an Appendix Concerning Borough-English Practice of the Country. He hopes the Reader will not imagine that thefe Re cords are inferted as Precedents of Plead ing, they being moflly of a Time when the Courts of Law had not arrived at their Prefent Accuracy in that Partien lar; and were they more c'orree't, yet as the Necefiity of fpecial Pleading in Aeti ons for Lands is, in a great Meafure, taken away by the modern Praetice of trying Titles on the general litue in Ejeet ment, they could, if ufed for that Pur pofe, only ferve to encreafe the Size of the Book, without any View of Benefit to the Reader. But he believes each of thefe Re cords will be found to contain fome nota ble Point of the Culloms, either confefled by the Parties in the Pleadings, found by the jury, or adjudged by the Court. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.