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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... lautre cas , quod talis seisitus fuit , & c . , ut de feodo . 11 Et nota que home ne poet aver pluis ample ou pluis greindre estate ou enheritaunce * , que fee- simple . 12 Item , purchace est appelle la possession de terres ou fined ...
... en ceo cas ambi- deux ont estate en le taille , pur ceo que cest parole heires nest limite a lun pluis que a lautre , [ et ils ont en cell cas tiel lands had been given to them and to the heirs 34 [ BOOK I. LYTTLETON'S S TENURES .
... 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- had of an es- mon . * Instead of the words within brackets , Pyns . 1516 , Redm . , Berth ...
... lautre en eschaunge pur la terre que lautre ad , et en mesme le manere , lautre graunta sa terre a le premier grantour en eschaunge pur la terre que le premier grantour ad ; en ceo cas chescun poet entrer en lautre terre issint [ prise ...
... lautre en fee - simple , coment que lautre soit agree a celle , cest es- chaunge est voide , pur ceo que les estatez ne sont mye owelx . 65 En mesme le manere est , lou il est graunté et agree entre eux , que lun avera en lun terre fee ...
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 |