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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... comen ley . Fee - simple . Estate dinherit- ance . General . Fee - taile . Especial . [ Apres possib . dissu ex- tinct . Franctenement tan- tum . Curtesie dEngl . Dower . Terme de vie . Terme dauter vie . Selon custome : qui poet estre ...
... comen ley , sicome appiert per le rehersail de mesme lestatute . Et ore per cel estatute , tenaunt en le taille est en deux maners , cest as- savoir , tenaunt en le taille generall , et tenaunt en le taille es- peciall . 14 Tenant in ...
... comen ley la feme navera pur sa dower forsque la tierce partie des tenementes que furent a son baron duraunt lespousels , mes per custume dascun pays elle avera la moite , et per custume en ascun ville et borough ele avera lentierte ...
... comen ley , dascuns terres ou tenementes queux furent de son dit baron . Mes si ele voit , ele poet refuser tiel dower ad ostium ecclesiĉ , & c . , et donques ele poet estre endowe solonques le cours de le comen ley . 42 Et nota , que ...
... comen et occupier en comen , come sa partie amounta , ovesque leire son baron , et ovesque lautre jointenaunt qui ne aliena pas : pur ceo que en tiel cas sa dower net poet estre assigne per metez et boundez . Dower may be tate in com ...
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 |