Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

mixed tithes

Tithes consisting of natural products, such as milk or wool, obtained or cultivated by human effort. "A second species of incorporeal hereditaments is that of tithes . the first species being usually called predial, as of corn, grass, hops, and wood; the second mixed, as of wool, milk, pigs, etc., 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." 2 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 24 (1766).