The Posterity: a Study Brief

1. Why does a grant to “posterity” require its members to be ascertained?

2. Why might the oath have been administered to settlers but not to the villages’ Mohawks?

3. What is a “latent defect”, and how could an unperformed duty create one in later titles?

4. Is the Register a fair substitute for the Crown’s registry?

5. What would mandamus achieve that the Register cannot?

6. Apply. Draft the entry a clerk should have written in 1796 for one family.

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