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CHAPTER II.
State of the Law relating to Land in the reign of Henry II
Extracts from Glanvill.
§ 1. Customary and Positive Law.
§ 2. Supremacy of Curia Regis in matters relating to the Freehold
§ 3. Relation of Lord and Free Tenant .
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69
§ 9. Modes of recovering Seisin of Lands. Assizes of Mort
d'Ancestor and of Novel Disseisin
CHAPTER III.
State of the Law from the End of the Reign of Henry II to the
End of the Reign of Henry III
SECTION I.
§ 9. Rights of the Lord of a Manor over the Waste. Statute of
Extracts from Bracton.
SECTION II.
§ 10. Growth of Judiciary Law
§ II. Tenures
§ 12. A Common-Law Conveyance of a Freehold Estate:
(1) A Charter of Feoffment.
(2) Livery of Seisin
§ 13. Villenagium. Non-free Tenure
§ 15. Differences of Freehold Estates in respect of their Duration.
Estates of Freehold and Estates less than Freehold. Con-
ditional Gifts
§ 16. Tenancy by the Curtesy of England
§ 17. Terms of Years
§ 18. Servitudes. (Easements and Profits). (1) In General
(2) Rights of Common .
CHAPTER IV.
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Legislation of Edward I
§ 1. A Manor in the time of Edward I.
Extenta Manerii, 4 Edward I, Stat. I
§ 2. Alienation in Mortmain
Statutum de Viris Religiosis, 7 Edward I, Stat. 2. c. 13
Statute of Westminster II, 13 Edward I, c. 32
Statute of Westminster II, 13 Edward I, c. 1. De Donis Con-
ditionalibus
§ 4. Rights of Common Appurtenant
Statute of Westminster II, 13 Edward I, c. 46
§ 5. Alienation. The Statute of 'Quia Emptores'
Statute of Westminster III, 18 Edward I, cc. 1, 2, 3. Statutum
Domini Regis de terris vendendis et emendis
CHAPTER V.
201
Extract from Littleton's Tenures. Tenant for Term of Years
2II
§ 2. Estates Tail.
Translation of the Pleadings in Taltarum's Case
§3. Interests in Futuro. Reversions and Remainders.
(1) Reversions
(2) Remainders (Vested and Contingent)
Extract from Brooke's Abridgment, Done and Remainder
Extract from Littleton's Tenures
§ 4. Joint Tenants, Tenants in Common, Coparceners
Extract from Littleton's Tenures (Sir E. Coke's Translation). 242
Extract from Littleton's Tenures (Sir E. Coke's Translation)
§ 6. Copyhold Tenure
Extract from Littleton's Tenures (Sir E. Coke's Translation). 260
APPENDIX TO PART I.
§ 1. Place of the Law of Real Property in the English System
TABLE I..
§ 2. Rights over Things Real classified in respect of their duration 273
TABLE II.
274
§ 3. Rights over Things Real classified in respect of the time of
their enjoyment
275
TABLE III.
276
PART II.
THE MODERN LAW OF REAL PROPERTY.
CHAPTER VI.
Origin and Early History of Uses or Equitable Interests in
(1) Proceedings in Chancery in the Reign of Henry V. William
Dodd v. John Browning and another
299
(2) William of Arundel, Esq. v. Sir Maurice Berkeley, Knight,
and others
(3) Examination by the Bishop of Bath and Wells, Chancellor
of England, of two persons to whom one Robert Crody
had made a feoffment by parol, on his death-bed, in
trust for his wife for life, with remainder to his daughter
in tail
(4) Year Book, 4 Edward IV, 8. 9.
(5) Year Book, 7 Edward IV, 14. 8.
Translation
Year Book, 18 Edward IV, 11. 4. Translation.
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301
303
305
CHAPTER VII.
The Statute of Uses and its principal effects on Modern Con-
27 Henry VIII, cap. 10. An Act concerning Uses and Wills
§ 2. Effect of the Statute of Uses upon the power of dealing with
the Legal Estate in Lands.
§ 3. Statute of Enrolments
27 Henry VIII, cap. 16. An Act concerning Enrolments of
Bargains and Contracts of Lands and Tenements
§ 4. Equitable Estates in Lands since the Statute of Uses
309
310
312
CHAPTER VIII.
History of the Law of Wills of Land.
(1) The Act of Wills, Wards, and Primer Seisins, whereby a man
may devise two parts of his land. 32 Henry VIII, cap. 1. .
(2) An Act for the Explanation of the Statute of Wills. 34 and
35 Henry VIII, cap. 5
(3) The Act for the Amendment of the Laws with respect to Wills.
7 William IV and 1 Victoria, cap. 26.
12 Charles II, cap. 24. An Act for taking away the Court of
Wards and Liveries, and Tenures in Capite, and by Knight's
Service, and Purveyance, and for settling a Revenue upon His
Majesty in lieu thereof
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361
CHAPTER X.
Titles or Modes of acquisition of rights over Things Real
§ 1. Title by Alienation
§ 2. Title by Succession
§ 3. Miscellaneous Titles:
(1) Escheat
(2) Loss and Acquisition by Lapse of Time
(3) Compulsory Acquisition for Public Purposes
(4) Acquisition under Inclosure Acts
(5) Compulsory Enfranchisement of Freeholds
(6) Bankruptcy
TABLE IV.
GLOSSARY
INDEX
ERRATUM.
p. 73, 119, for Whitsuntide read 'Easter."