Observations on the rules of descent : and on the point of law, whether the brother of a purchaser's paternal grandmother shall be preferred in the descent, to the brother of the paternal great grandmother of a purchaser? in defence of Mr. Justice Manwood's position : and in reply to the advocates for the doctrine of Mr. Justice Blackstone : together with some reflections on the subject of our law's disallowance of lineal ascent / by W.H. Rowe.