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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 809 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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USES , in See also:

law, equitable or beneficial interests in See also:land. In See also:early law a See also:man could not dispose of his See also:estate by will nor could religious houses acquire it. As a method of evading the See also:common law arose the practice of making feoffments to the use of, or upon See also:trust for, persons other than those to whom the See also:seisin or legal See also:possession was delivered, to which the equitable See also:jurisdiction of the See also:chancellor gave effect. To remedy the abuses which it was said were occasioned by this evasion of the law was passed the famous See also:Statute of Uses (1536), which, however, failed to accomplish its purpose. Out of this failure of the Statute of Uses arose the See also:modern law of See also:TRUSTS, under which heading will be found a full See also:history of uses. See also See also:CONVEYANCING.

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