Similar customs prevailed in a part of Friesland, the most notable of which was the ‘Jus Theelacticum,’ or custom of the Theel lands, doles, or allottable lands in East Friesland, not far from the mouth of the Ems. There an inherited allotment was indivisible; on the death of the father it passed intact to the youngest son, and on his death without issue it fell into the possession of the whole community

Tomorrow night was graduation, and guess who was chairman of the decoration committee? None other than clubfisted, not a single artistic bone in her body, Allie Emerson.

They heard her rouse the sleeping servant, and with her enter the kitchen; then the noise of a fire being lighted and the fountain being filled came to the watchers.

Thus, although opponents of the private bank proposal accused its supporters of undermining the colony's sovereignty, the antibank cohort themselves viewed the provincial government's power as circumscribed.