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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... possession , and the understanding of no effect in the eye of the King's Courts , can easily be conjectured . The same county also affords an instance of the breaking down of descent in gavelkind : in the Clamores , or disputed claims ...
... possession , and the understanding of no effect in the eye of the King's Courts , can easily be conjectured . The same county also affords an instance of the breaking down of descent in gavelkind : in the Clamores , or disputed claims ...
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... possessed by its lords . II . Those rights as possessed by its cultivators . Now if we look at the land - system before the Conquest the same double aspect is presented : the land as held after the Conquest by the 9000 feudal landowners ...
... possessed by its lords . II . Those rights as possessed by its cultivators . Now if we look at the land - system before the Conquest the same double aspect is presented : the land as held after the Conquest by the 9000 feudal landowners ...
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... possessed by nearly every free landowner except the tenants in capite T. R. E. are stated , and I should infer from this fact that the county was in a transition state from the freedom of the older and Danish shires to the servile ...
... possessed by nearly every free landowner except the tenants in capite T. R. E. are stated , and I should infer from this fact that the county was in a transition state from the freedom of the older and Danish shires to the servile ...
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... possession of the strong man armed . For agricultural purposes there was no advantage except comparative security of tenure : the reason of the system was not so much the efficient , as the safe , tilling of land . It cannot be truly ...
... possession of the strong man armed . For agricultural purposes there was no advantage except comparative security of tenure : the reason of the system was not so much the efficient , as the safe , tilling of land . It cannot be truly ...
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... possession might indeed alienate the land , but on his death , the issue to whom the land descended might defeat the alienation by a writ of " Formedon in the Descender , " the lord might defeat it , on failure of the donee's issue , by ...
... possession might indeed alienate the land , but on his death , the issue to whom the land descended might defeat the alienation by a writ of " Formedon in the Descender , " the lord might defeat it , on failure of the donee's issue , by ...
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