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To: Rides3; sometime lurker

Blackstone IS very clear:

“But this opinion has been since overruled:52 and it is now held for law, that the sons of an alien, born here, may inherit to each other. ...IT is also enacted, by the statute II & 12 W III. c. 6. that all persons, being natural-born subjects of the king, may inherit and make their titles by descent from any of their ancestors lineal or collateral; although their father, or mother, or other ancestor, by, from, through, or under whom they derive their pedigrees, were born out of the king’s allegiance.”

If a denizen died, the property he had would go to a son born after the denization. If a son had been born in the UK prior to denization, that son was a NBS and could inherit from anyone. But a son who was not a NBS, and who was born before denization, was not eligible.

You cannot take a sentence fragment out of context and then proclaim yourself an expert in British law. You actually have to read whole sentences, and maybe even paragraphs. To fully appreciate it, you would have to study for years.

Blackstone wasn’t a blowhard. He was an expert. But even with Blackstone, you can’t take a sentence fragment and declare victory.


244 posted on 06/01/2012 10:44:27 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (A conservative can't please a liberal unless he jumps in front of a bus or off of a cliff)
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To: Mr Rogers
Blackstone wasn’t a blowhard. He was an expert.

An expert who KNEW he needed to use a disclaimer. So he deliberately used one.

Had such NOT been the case, Blackstone would have simply stated his opinion as fact. He did not. He specifically framed his opinion as "generally speaking."

245 posted on 06/01/2012 11:16:23 AM PDT by Rides3
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