ABSTRACT
1. The dominion over the child is originally the right of the mother. 2. Pre-eminence of sex giveth not the child to the father, rather than the mother. 3. The title of the father or mother to the person of the child, is not the generation but the preservation of it. 4. The child of a woman-servant is the dominion of her master. 5. The right to the child given from the mother sometimes by express covenant. 6. The child of the concubine not in the power of the father by that title. 7. The child of the husband and the wife in the power of the father. 8. The father, or he or she that bringeth up the child, have absolute power over him. 9. Freedom in subjects what it is. 10. A great family is a patrimonial kingdom. 11. Succession of the sovereign power, absolute disposable by will. 12. Though the successor be not declared, yet there is always one to be presumed. 13. The children preferred to the succession before all others. 14. The males before the females. 15. The eldest before the rest of the brothers. 16. The brother next to the children. 17. The succession of the possessor followeth the same rule with the succession of the predecessor.
