The Country Gentleman's Magazine Author:Simpkin General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1832 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: SPANISH SYSTEM OF ENTAILS. 1. Memorias, $c. Report on the Advancement of Agriculture and on Agrarian Laws, addressed to the Supreme Council of Castile by the Patriotic Society of Madrid, and drawn up by one of its Members, Don Caspar Melchar de Jovellanos. Madrid, 1795. 2. Tableau de VEspagne Moderne. Par M. Bourgoing. Quatre tomes. Paris, 1803. 3. Alonzoou I'Espagne. Par M. Salvandy. Paris, 1824. 4. Itineraire Descriplif de FEspagne. Par M. Alexandra de La- borde. Cinq tomes. Paris, 1828. Nouvelle Edition. 5. Souvenires du Midi ou FEspagne telle qu'elle est sousses Pouvoirs Religieux et Monarchiquc. Par M. Faurc. Paris, 1831. 6. A Year in Spain. By a Young American. In two vols. London, 1831. 7- Spanish Codes -- Fuero Juzgo, Ley de las Sictc Partidas, Ordena- mienlo Real, Fuero Real, and Novissima Recopilacion. I He real character of native institutions is never so distinctly perceived, as when brought out by comparison or contrast with that of analogous institutions in other countries. Our system of entails, for example, is now generally admitted to have completely failed in accomplishing the main object which the framers of it had in view, namely, securing the landed aristocracy against the operation of those natural causes which, in ordinary circumstances, affect the distribution of property ; and experience has proved it to be as inconsistent with the true interests of the order which it was intended to support, in perpetual and una- lienable influence, as it is adverse to public policy and the welfare of the country at large. But what is familiar and common, be it ever so absurd and ...« less