But its consequent rights being once supposed, many real charges and burdens grew from a fiction made only for the preservation of subordination; and in consequence of this, a great power was exercised over the persons and estates of the tenants.
Burke discusses the burdens that arose from the feudal system's legal fictions.
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I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.
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