as-if a perfon, fcattering fugar or dir ms (for inftance) among the
people, fhould chance to throw thefe into the-clothes of fome one ; in
which cafe the property does not immediately veft in that perfon,
until he wrap it up or prepare to feize it.— It is otherwife with refpeft
toTo«ry, for the property of it vefts in the proprietor of the ground
in which it is gathered together; becaufe honey is confidered as the
produce .of the ground, and hence the proprietor of the ground obtains
a property in i t as a dependant of the .foil, in the fame manner
as in the trees which grow in his land, or in water which flows
through it.
H E D A Y J .
H E. D A T A.
B O O IC XVII.
Of S I R F S A L E . .
BEE Y A . S I R E means -a pure fale,-of which the articles oppofed
in exchange, to each other are both reprefentatives of price. This Sl
is termed Sirf, . becaufe S ir f means, a removal, and in this mode of fale
it is neceflary to remove the articlesoppofed to each other in exchange
from the hands o f each., of the parties, refpedtively, .into thofe of the
other. S ir f alfo. means a fuperiority; and in .this kind of fale a fuperi-.
ority is. the only objedt;. that is, a fuperiority of quality, fafhion, Or
workmanfhip;. for gold or filver being, with refpeft to their, fubflance,;
o£no..ufe, ,are only.defireable from fuch fiiperiority...
sfirwtion of
r//ale.
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