Lavender v. Pritchard's Administrator

who had directed the jury that a delivery of part of the thing given was a good delivery of the whole of that species of property, took several days to consider of the motion for a new trial, and came into court with divers books, which he read in support of his former opinion. Our law, he said, was taken from the civil law, which allowed of a possession of part to be given in the name of the whole. 1 Brown Civil and Admiralty Law, 256. He said it was also analogous to the common law respecting the seisin of lands or of rents, where one thing may be given in the name of seisin of the rent or…