DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT:

District Clerk's Office.

BE it remembered, That on the fifth day of May, A. D. 1824, and in the forty-eighth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Nathan Dane, of the said district, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit:

"A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law, with occasional Notes and Comments. By Nathan Dane, LL. D. Counsellor at Law. In eight volumes. Vol. V."

In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned;" and also to an act, entitled, "An act, supplementary to an act, entitled, An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching, historical and other prints."

JOHN W. DAVIS,

Clerk of the District of Massachusetts

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T. H. CARTER, PRINTER.

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BY FORFEITURE.-General principles. Lands may be for- 2 Bl.Com. feited: 1. By crimes: 2. By alienations contrary to law: 3. By non-performance of conditions: 4. By waste.

The common law punished one attainted of treason or Co. Lit. 40. felony: 1. With loss of life by hanging: 2. Loss of wife's dower, as well against the husband's feoffee, as the lord by escheat; but for centuries she has not lost her dower by her husband's attainder of felony: 3. Corruption of blood, &c.: 4. Forfeiture of lands, goods, and chattels, but not for petit larceny under 12d.

As to the general principles of the common law, of the laws of Massachusetts Colony, federal and state constitutions, &c. see Debt for Penalties, Forfeitures, &c. No seizure for forfeiture, after a statute is expired. 6 Cran. 203.

ART. 2. 1. It may generally be observed, that by our laws, there is, on the principles of the common law, a discretionary fine for crimes and offences; otherwise we have no forfeitures of estates for crimes, by any general law; but so far as we have any forfeitures of property for criminal