of inheritance are such as to preserve the homestead, notwithstanding the debts that the father may have run into (ibid., pp. 35–41).
After having shown how small are the farms in the islands (from twenty to five acres, and very many less than that) — there being “less than 100 farms in either island that exceed twenty-five acres; and of these only about half a dozen in Jersey exceed fifty acres” — Messrs. Ansted, Latham, and Nicolle remark:
“In no place do we find so happy and so contented a country as in the Channel Islands ...” “The system of land-tenure has also contributed in no small degree to their prosperity ...” “The purchaser