Tithe

====Definition and classification and those liable to pay tithes====
<blockquote>. . . tithes; which are defined to be the tenth part of the increase, yearly arising and renewing from the profits of lands, the stock upon lands, and the personal industry of the inhabitants:
:the first species being usually called ''predial,''<ref>from praedium, a farm</ref> as of corn, grass, hops, and wood;
:the second ''mixed'', as of wool, milk, pigs, &c, consisting of natural products, but nurtured and preserved in part by the care of man; and of these the tenth must be paid in gross:
:the third ''personal'', as of manual occupations, trades, fisheries, and the like; and of these only the tenth part of the clear gains and profits is due.
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in general, tithes are to be paid for every thing that yields an annual increase, as corn, hay, fruit, cattle, poultry, and the like; but not for any thing that is of the substance of the earth, or is not of annual increase, as stone, lime, chalk, and the like; nor for creatures that are of a wild nature, or ''ferae naturae'', as deer, hawks, &c, whose increase, so as to profit the owner, is not annual, but casual.<ref name = 'BlackstoneII'>{{cite book |last=Blackstone |first=William |title=Commentaries on the Laws of England vol II |date=1766 |place=Oxford |publisher=Clarendon Press|title-link=Commentaries on the Laws of England }}</ref>{{rp|24}}</blockquote>