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Tithes LAW AND LEGAL
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In English law. The tenth part of the increase, yearly arlslng and re-newing from the profits of lands, the stock npon lands, and the personal industry of the inhabitants. 2 Bl. Comm. 24. A specles of incorporeal heredltament, being an ecclesiastical inheritance collateral to the estate of the land, and due only to au ecclesiastical person by eccleslastlcal law. 1 Crabb, Real Prop. S 133

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The values we rightly associate with the modern age - the "liberty, equality, and fraternity" of the French revolution - are all endangered today not by the dead hand of tradition but by modernity itself, and they can be salvaged only by moving beyond it.

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