Lyttleton, His Treatise of Tenures in French and English"The ornament of the Common Law." Lyttleton, His Treatise of Tenures, in French and English. A New Edition, Printed From the Most Ancient Copies, And Collated With the Various Readings of the Cambridge MSS. To Which Are Added The Ancient Treatise of the Olde Tenures, And the Customs of Kent. Originally published: London: S. Sweet, 1841. lv, [1], 727 pp. Hardcover. New. With index. Parallel text in Law-French and English. Written during the reign of Edward IV [1442-1483], Littleton's Tenures was much admired for its learning and style. It is concerned with the doctrines of old English Common Law regarding the tenures of real estate as well as issues related to real property. This venerable work, which Coke called "the ornament of the Common Law, and the most perfect and absolute work that ever was written in any humane science," is a considered a landmark because it renounced the principles of Roman law in favor of a set of guidelines and doctrines drawn from the Year Books, and when necessary, hypothetical cases. Sir Thomas Littleton [1402-1481] was a King's Serjeant, Judge of Assize and Justice of the Common Pleas. T.E. Tomlins [1804-1872] was a notable legal writer and antiquarian. His is best known for his Popular-Law Dictionary (1838). (He is confused sometime with his uncle, Sir Thomas Edlyne Tomlins, the prolific legal writer and editor of the later editions of Jacob's Law-Dictionary.) |
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... Tottyl , 1554. The title - page to these editions , which are mere reprints of Berth . , is , Lytylton Tenures , newly revised and truly corrected , with a Table after the alphabete , to finde out briefely the cases desired in the same ...
... Tottyl , the king's printer , to publish an ex- purgated edition ; and accordingly we next find , in a small black letter character , Lyttleton's Tenures , conferred with divers true wrytten copies , and purged of sondry cases , having ...
... Tottyl ( for he prints his name both ways ) , appears as the only publisher of Lyttleton in French , for he pub- lished these sectioned editions in 18mo . with some English co- piest ( of which more hereafter ) till 1591 ; and then the ...
... Tottyl published an 18mo . edition of this translation , which is very faith- ful and correct , and in almost every ... Tot- tyl's edition , however , demands attention from the fact that §§ 459-461 , 474 , 521 , 527 , 552 , 554-559 ...
... Tottyl , J. Yetsweirt , Wight , and other printers , to 1604 ; after whom the Stationers published this edition to 1661 . The translation commonly called Sir Edward Coke's Transla- tion , is chiefly taken from some copy previous to Tottyl's ...
Contents
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PETIT SERJEANTY | 191 |
TENURE IN BURGAGE | 193 |
VILLENAGE | 206 |
RENTS | 242 |
PARCENERS | 277 |
PARCENERS BY CUSTOM | 297 |
JOINTTENANTS | 324 |
TENANTS IN COMMON | 342 |
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BOOK II | 117 |
FEALTY | 123 |
ESCUAGE | 126 |
KNIGHT SERVICE | 135 |
SOCAGE | 155 |
FRANKALMOIGN | 169 |
HOMAGE ANCESTREL | 178 |
GRAND SERJEANTY | 187 |
ESTATES UPON CONDITION | 367 |
DESCENTS WHICH TOLL ENTRIES | 425 |
CONTINUAL CLAIM | 444 |
RELEASES | 471 |
CONFIRMATION | 522 |
ATTORNMENT | 542 |
DISCONTINUANCE | 574 |
REMITTER | 617 |
WARRANTY | 648 |
538 in marg for and of my right read and release of my right 636 in n for origninal read original 661 in marg for issue read assets | 661 |
693 sixth line from the bottom for serront read ferront | 693 |