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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... fee - tail , also rendered into Latin by Hottoman , in his De Verbis Feudalibus , latterly printed as an Appendix to Calvin's Lexicon Juridicum , may have led to this error.— -See post , p . 3 , n . ( e ) By a decree of the National ...
... FEE - TAIL 23 III . ESTATE - TAIL APRES 40 IV . CURTESY 44 V. DOWER 51 VI . TENANT FOR LIFE 65 VII . TENANT FOR YEARS 69 VIII . TENANT AT WILL 87 IX . TENANT BY COPY 95 X. TENANT BY THE VERGE 102 BOOK II . CHAPTER I. HOMAGE . 117 II ...
Sir Thomas Littleton Thomas Edlyne Tomlins. OF THE DIVISION OF POSSESSIONS . Inheritance . Fee - simple . Fee - tail . General . Special . Tenant in tail after possibility of issue extinct . Tenant by the curtesy . Into the state of ...
... de- scended from a female . N.B. - The Italic letter denotes the substituted , the Roman letter , the original rules of descent . CHAPTER II . FEE - TAIL . LYTTLETON having discoursed 22 [ BOOK I. LYTTLETON'S TENURES .
Sir Thomas Littleton Thomas Edlyne Tomlins. CHAPTER II . FEE - TAIL . LYTTLETON having discoursed of an absolute fee , now treats of a conditional fee at the Common Law , by the stat . de donis changed to a fee - tail , whereof the ...
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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102 | |
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 |