That possession was the strongest tenure of the law.[692:2]
The Cat and the two Birds. Chap. v. Fable iv.
Footnotes
[691:1] Pilpay is supposed to have been a Brahmin gymnosophist, and to have lived several centuries before Christ. The earliest form in which his Fables appear is in the Pancha-tantra and Hitopadesa of the Sanskrit. The first translation was into the Pehlvi language, and thence into the Arabic, about the seventh century. The first English translation appeared in 1570.
[691:2] And with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.—Matthew vii. 2.
[691:3] See Heywood, page [16].
[691:4] See Herrick, page [203].
[691:5] See Heywood, page [19].