Abstract
This chapter discusses the process of settlements of land through laws. The settlement of wealth has probably been the most distinctive contribution of the common law to legal achievement. It grew out of the settlement of land, so long the only important form of wealth. That, in turn, grew out of the tenurial situation. The principal symptoms of incompleteness are that until the third heir entered, no homage to the donor, that the comprehensive warranty imported by homage was absent; that the donees were in some sense holding in the name of the donor and could not plead without him; and that if the heirs of the marriage failed, the land reverted to the donor. If the tenant died seised but without an heir of the marriage, or if he had alienated without having had such issue, the donor was entitled to his reversion.
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