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Section 7 Fee Simple - Sir Edward Coke, Selected Writings of Sir Edward Coke, vol. II [1606]

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The Selected Writings and Speeches of Sir Edward Coke, ed. Steve Sheppard (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2003). Vol. 2.

Part of: Selected Writings of Sir Edward Coke, 3 vols.

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Section 7
Fee Simple

And if a man hath issue a son and a daughter by one venter, and a son by another venter, & the son of the first venter purchase lands in fee and dye without issue, the sister shal have the land by descent as heire to her brother, & not the younger brother, for that the sister is the whole bloud of her elder brother.

This is put for an example to illustrate that which hath | beenesaid, and needeth no explanation. And herewith agreeth Britton.1

[1. ]Britton cap. 119.