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2197. DESCENTS, Law of.—[continued].

The bill for establishing
a National Bank undertakes * * * to form the
subscribers into a corporation [and] to enable
them, in their corporate capacities, to transmit
these [141] lands, on the death of a proprietor,


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to a certain line of successors; and so far
changes the course of Descents.
National Bank Opinion. Washington ed. vii, 555. Ford ed., v, 284.
(1791)

 
[141]

Lands held by aliens in their capacity as stookholders
of the bank.—Editor.