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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... lives , with a reversion or remainder to some religious foundation : e.g.- “ Ealhferð quanto tempore vixerit , et post se duobus haeredi- bus , quibus defunctis aecclesiae Weogornensi restituatur " : " freolice his daeg forgeaf , and ...
... lives , with a reversion or remainder to some religious foundation : e.g.- “ Ealhferð quanto tempore vixerit , et post se duobus haeredi- bus , quibus defunctis aecclesiae Weogornensi restituatur " : " freolice his daeg forgeaf , and ...
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... lives , with a reversion to the Church . And lands might be confiscated to the donor , if the conditions of the book were not observed . Thus where Cissa had granted to the Church lands for the erection of religious buildings , “ Ini ...
... lives , with a reversion to the Church . And lands might be confiscated to the donor , if the conditions of the book were not observed . Thus where Cissa had granted to the Church lands for the erection of religious buildings , “ Ini ...
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... lives however allowed considerable liberty to its holder , for in the same county there is an entry : " Toti emit eam T. R. E. de Ecclesia Malmesburiense ad aetatem trium hominum , et infra 1 f . 141 , a , 2. Sometimes the mort- gagee ...
... lives however allowed considerable liberty to its holder , for in the same county there is an entry : " Toti emit eam T. R. E. de Ecclesia Malmesburiense ad aetatem trium hominum , et infra 1 f . 141 , a , 2. Sometimes the mort- gagee ...
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... lives ; but no similar entry occurs in the rest of Domesday . More re- stricted estates are common : e.g. " Aluric tenuit de Abbatissa unam hidam ... ea conditione ut post mortem ejus rediret ad ecclesiam , quia de dominica firma erat ...
... lives ; but no similar entry occurs in the rest of Domesday . More re- stricted estates are common : e.g. " Aluric tenuit de Abbatissa unam hidam ... ea conditione ut post mortem ejus rediret ad ecclesiam , quia de dominica firma erat ...
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... live a great time till the creditors are forced to take a small parcel of their debts and release the remnant , " and it is enacted that such gifts if made by collusion shall not protect the goods and chattels from the creditors . In ...
... live a great time till the creditors are forced to take a small parcel of their debts and release the remnant , " and it is enacted that such gifts if made by collusion shall not protect the goods and chattels from the creditors . In ...
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