In Scotch law. Inferior fiefs; portions of a fief or feud granted out to inferior tenants. 2 Bl. Comm. 57. Rerum ordo eonfundltur si unieuiquo Jurisdietio non servetur. 4 Inst. Proem. The order of things is confounded if every one preserve not his jurisdiction. Rerum progress us ostendunt multa, qua in initio prsecaveri sen prsBviderl non pounnt. 6 Coke, 40. The progress of events shows many things which, at the beginning, could not be guarded against or foreseen. onanun quilibet est moderator et arbiter. Every one is the regulator and disposer of his own property. Co. Litt 223a.
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