26 Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.

27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.

"Among the legal profession the dominant factors in the practice, and in the enforcement of the law are procedure, precedent and the technical construction of legal enactments."-J. J. Johnson.

"The land of a Teutonic community is primarily the property of the community itself. It is folkland, ager publicus, the land of the people. But here, as every where else, private property in land gradually arose; that is, the community granted out parts of the common possession to its individual members. The pictures of Caesar and Tacitus show that, in the time between them, the institution of private property in land had already made some advances. When it has once begun, it is sure to advance. It would specially advance with every conquest; each man would claim to have his personal share of the soil which he had helped to win. Thus, alongside of the folkland; the land of community, grew up the private estate, the eõel, odal or allod. This is land which is a man's very own, the gift of the community held according to the laws of the community. It is not the gift of this or that man, owing any service to this or that man. As the king's power grew, as he came to be looked on more and more as the repesentative of the community, the land of the community came step by step to be looked on as his land. In the six hundred years between the English conquest of Britain and the Norman conquest of England, the folkland, the ager publicus passed into terra regis, the land of the king.

"As the community could at all times grant away its own land, the doctrine gradually grew that the king, the head of the community, could grant it away also. In the first stage he granted it only with the assent of the community; in a later stage he came to dispense with that assent.

"Land thus booked, granted by a written document, to whomever the king would, but of course mainly to his personal followers, became bookland.

"The lord was the giver of bread to his man, and the land of the community was the noblest form of bread that he could give him. And, as things went on, he might sometimes grant him more than the land itself.

"The primitive community, great or small, from the township to the nation, had the rights of a community; it had judicial and administrative powers. From those powers it might be deemed a privilege for the royal grantee to be exempted. He might be clothed with exceptional judicial powers within his own lands; the next stage would be for those powers to spread themselves over the lands of his neighbors. The privileged landowner within a community might grow to be the lord of the community. The township might grow into the lordship; its free assembly might grow into the court of the lord; the land itself, so much of it as escaped the lord's clutches, might be declared to be held under the lord. In the fictions of lawyers things are commonly turned about. The exception is declared to be the rule, and the rule to be the exception.

"If the community contrives to save any fragments of its ancient rights from the grasp of the lord, those fragments are at last judicially declared to be held only by the lord's grant. `If no grant can be found in real history, legal ingenuity will be ready to assume one." Ency. Brit. 9th Ed., Vol. 8, page 275. When the Tribes are known, we shall be better prepared to select Judges.

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7 Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the foreheads. tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve thousand.

*Rev. 7:1-8-Dan's name does not appear in the one hundred and forty-four thousand that are sealed in their foreheads.

3 And they sung as it were a *6 And I, behold, I have given new song before the throne, and before the four beasts and the with him Aholiab the son of Åhiselders: and no man could learn amach, o fthe tribe of Dan; and in the hearts of all that are wisethat song but the hundred and hearted I have put wisdom; that forty and four thousand which they may make all that I have commanded thee;

4 These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are gation, and the ark of the testivirgins. These are they which fol- mony, and the mercy-seat that is low the Lamb withersoever he thereupon, and all the furniture of goeth. These were redemeed from the tabernacle, among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.

*When the Tribes are known we shall be better prepared to select Judges.

31 And he hath filled him with the land: who when they came to the spirit of God, in wisdom, in mount Ephraim, to the house of understanding, and in knowledge, Micah, they lodged there.

and in all manner of workman

ship;

32 And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,

33 And in the cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of wood, to make any manner of cunning work.

34 And he hath put in his heart that he may teach, both he, and Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.

35 Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work.

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1 In those days there was king in Israel and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for unto that day all their inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel.

3 When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite: and they turned in thither, and said unto him, Who brought thee hither? and what makest thou in this place? and what hast thou here?

4 And he said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest.

5 And they said unto him, Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.

6 And the priest said unto them, Go in peace: before the LORD is your way wherein ye go.

7¶ Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that were therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and there was no magistrate in the land, that might put them to shame in any thing; and they were far from the Zidonians, and had no business with any man.

8 And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol; and their brethren said unto them. What say ye?

2 And the children of Dan sent 9 And they said, Arise, that we of their family five men from may go up against them: for we their coasts, men of valour, from have seen the land, and, behold, Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy it is very good; and are ye still? out the land, and to search it; and be not slothful to go, and to enter they said unto them, Go, search to possess the land.