The origin of _Fee-tail estates_:
"The expression, fee-tail, was borrowed from the feudists, among
whom it signified any mutilated or truncated inheritance from which
the heirs general were cut off, being derived from the barbarous
word _taliare_ to cut.--(2 _Blac. Comm_. 112.)
_Fines and Recoveries (as fund and refund_,) are like the poles, arctic
and attractive. Of the latter is the following _quid-pro-quo_ anecdote:
"A physician of an acrimonious disposition, and having a thorough
hatred of lawyers, was in company with a barrister, and in the
course of conversation, reproached the profession of the latter with
the use of phrases utterly unintelligible. 'For example,' said he,
'I never could understand what you lawyers mean by docking an
entail.' 'That is very likely,' answered the lawyer, 'but I will
explain it to you; it is doing what you doctors never consent
to--_suffering a recovery_.'
Among the notes to _Rights and Titles_ is the following:
"Master _Mason_, of _Trinity College_, sent his pupil to another of
the fellows to borrow a book of him, who told him, 'I am loth to
lend books out of my chamber, but if it please thy tutor to come and
read upon it in my chamber, he shall as long as he will.
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