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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... eldest , or youngest , prevails , and though there are some traces of a custom of primogeniture in particular manors before the Conquest ' , yet there are no traces before the Conquest of any general rule of primogeniture , and after ...
... eldest , or youngest , prevails , and though there are some traces of a custom of primogeniture in particular manors before the Conquest ' , yet there are no traces before the Conquest of any general rule of primogeniture , and after ...
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... - shire , where lands acquired by descent pass to the youngest son , lands acquired by purchase to the eldest . Hazlitt's Blount , p . 38 . 4 L. 70 , § 21 . nulli liceat forismittere hereditatem suam de parentela sua datione vel.
... - shire , where lands acquired by descent pass to the youngest son , lands acquired by purchase to the eldest . Hazlitt's Blount , p . 38 . 4 L. 70 , § 21 . nulli liceat forismittere hereditatem suam de parentela sua datione vel.
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... eldest . Similar restrictions on alienation inter vivos are re- corded in Glanvil3 ; and a similar custom as to devise existed in the town of Shrewsbury , as to which the Assize found that the custom of Shrewsbury allowed a man to ...
... eldest . Similar restrictions on alienation inter vivos are re- corded in Glanvil3 ; and a similar custom as to devise existed in the town of Shrewsbury , as to which the Assize found that the custom of Shrewsbury allowed a man to ...
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... eldest . Similar restrictions on alienation inter vivos are re- corded in Glanvil ' ; and a similar custom as to devise existed in the town of Shrewsbury , as to which the Assize found that the custom of Shrewsbury allowed a man to ...
... eldest . Similar restrictions on alienation inter vivos are re- corded in Glanvil ' ; and a similar custom as to devise existed in the town of Shrewsbury , as to which the Assize found that the custom of Shrewsbury allowed a man to ...
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... eldest son alone and , failing sons , to the daughters equally , has become the common law , the old equal division surviving in gavelkind lands , as in Kent and parts of Notts , Borough English or Jüngsten Recht holding its ground in ...
... eldest son alone and , failing sons , to the daughters equally , has become the common law , the old equal division surviving in gavelkind lands , as in Kent and parts of Notts , Borough English or Jüngsten Recht holding its ground in ...
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