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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... custom , but on the terms of the Book , or written instrument by which it was conferred . Customary Estates again were divided into three classes : - 1. Heir - land , or Family Land ; Yrfe - land , or ethel ; which was owned by ...
... custom , but on the terms of the Book , or written instrument by which it was conferred . Customary Estates again were divided into three classes : - 1. Heir - land , or Family Land ; Yrfe - land , or ethel ; which was owned by ...
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... customs of some manors , e.g. Millan in Norfolk , where , if any copyholder wishes to sell his land , his kindred have the right of pre - emption in order of nearness of blood . Hazlitt's Blount , p . 221 . and Witan ' . This is early ...
... customs of some manors , e.g. Millan in Norfolk , where , if any copyholder wishes to sell his land , his kindred have the right of pre - emption in order of nearness of blood . Hazlitt's Blount , p . 221 . and Witan ' . This is early ...
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... custom which survived in socage lands after the Conquest , and which still survives in Kent under the name of Gavelkind . The custom known as Borough - English , the Continental Jüng- sten - Recht , whereby the youngest son succeeds to ...
... custom which survived in socage lands after the Conquest , and which still survives in Kent under the name of Gavelkind . The custom known as Borough - English , the Continental Jüng- sten - Recht , whereby the youngest son succeeds to ...
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... customs , and services , with the communities existing before the Conquest , and undoubtedly holding land in common . And if this is so it is , to say the least , not improbable that these latter were dependent communities , settled on ...
... customs , and services , with the communities existing before the Conquest , and undoubtedly holding land in common . And if this is so it is , to say the least , not improbable that these latter were dependent communities , settled on ...
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... custom might bind the lord to recognize the descent of land to heirs , I do not see how the ordinary manorial tenant could acquire , as against his lord , the right of alienation or of devise . Free tenants added to the Manor might ...
... custom might bind the lord to recognize the descent of land to heirs , I do not see how the ordinary manorial tenant could acquire , as against his lord , the right of alienation or of devise . Free tenants added to the Manor might ...
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