Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1893 — The Reason for It. [ARTICLE]

The Reason for It.

An old law tract assumes to give in this simple language the origin of the tenancy by the law or courtesy of Eqgjand: |tjwas called the law of, England, because It.w&s invented in England on behalf of poor gentlemen who married -gentlewomen, and had nothing to support themselves after their wives’ death.