Land in Fetters, Or, The History and Policy of the Laws Restraining the Alienation and Settlement of Land in England: Being the Yorke Prize Essay of the University of Cambridge for the Year 1885 |
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... single successor , fixed either by the custom of the manor , or the will of the lord ' . For equal division of each yardland 1 Scebohm , V. C. 176—178 . PRIMOGENITURE . 17 among the late tenant's children would naturally.
... single successor , fixed either by the custom of the manor , or the will of the lord ' . For equal division of each yardland 1 Scebohm , V. C. 176—178 . PRIMOGENITURE . 17 among the late tenant's children would naturally.
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... primogeniture in particular manors before the Conquest ' , yet there are no traces before the Conquest of any general rule of primogeniture , and after the Conquest there are manors in which the custom of gavelkind descent is found ...
... primogeniture in particular manors before the Conquest ' , yet there are no traces before the Conquest of any general rule of primogeniture , and after the Conquest there are manors in which the custom of gavelkind descent is found ...
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... Primogeniture . There is neither space nor place here for a lengthened discussion of this change , and indeed no materials for a complete account of the development appear to me to exist : one can only suggest the leading stages in the ...
... Primogeniture . There is neither space nor place here for a lengthened discussion of this change , and indeed no materials for a complete account of the development appear to me to exist : one can only suggest the leading stages in the ...
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... PRIMOGENITURE . 55 capable tenant , would have preferred the grown - up man to the orphan boy . It is therefore in the great military fiefs that we find the first introduction of primogeniture , though even in these the rule is applied ...
... PRIMOGENITURE . 55 capable tenant , would have preferred the grown - up man to the orphan boy . It is therefore in the great military fiefs that we find the first introduction of primogeniture , though even in these the rule is applied ...
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... PRIMOGENITURE position of those tenants of the Canterbury monasteries called · liberi sokmanni , " who did certa servitia , but had primo- genitary succession ' . When legal organization and civil security were revived under Henry II ...
... PRIMOGENITURE position of those tenants of the Canterbury monasteries called · liberi sokmanni , " who did certa servitia , but had primo- genitary succession ' . When legal organization and civil security were revived under Henry II ...
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