 | Columbia University. Faculty of Political Science - Electronic journals - 1889 - 744 pages
...the first place we have numerous "extents" of manors, ie descriptions which give us the number and names of the tenants, the size of their holdings, the legal character of their tenure and the kind and amount of their service ; the " extent " is a statement of all these things made by... | |
 | Association of American Law Schools - Law - 1908 - 842 pages
...the first place we have numerous "extents" of manors, ie descriptions which give us the number and names of the tenants, the size of their holdings, the legal character of their tenure and the kind and amount of their service ; the " extent " is a statement of all these things made by... | |
 | Sir Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave, Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave - Economics - 1901 - 824 pages
...Commissioners. It goes back as far as John's reign. III. MANORIAL EXTENTS. The " extent " of a manor is a description of it which generally gives the names...interrogatories addressed to them by the lord's steward. To ' ' extend " (extendere) a manor is to obtain by this process a full statement and valuation of... | |
 | Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave, Henry Higgs - Economics - 1926 - 954 pages
...MANORIAL EXTENTS. The "extent "of a manor is a description of it which generally gives the names of tho tenants, the size of their holdings, the legal character...interrogatories addressed to them by the lord's steward. To " extend " (extendere) a manor is to obtain by this process a full statement and valuation of all... | |
 | Frederic William Maitland - Constitutional history - 1911 - 512 pages
...the first place we have numerous " extents " of manors, ie descriptions which give us the number and names of the tenants, the size of their holdings, the legal character of their tenure and the kind and amount of their service ; the " extent " is a statement of all these things made by... | |
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... illustrative of manorial law and custom, a department of law which has hitherto been much neglected, but which is of the very highest interest to all students of economic and social history. (a) In the first place we have numerous "extents" of manors,... 