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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... reversion of the manor of Mol- stou - besyde - Clybery , in the county of Shrewsbury . Also I wulle , that my said sonne Richard have all my state , title and interest that I have in a messuage in the parish of St. Sepulchre's of London ...
... reversion or rents , & c . , that attornment shall be made , which are certain points containing the time when and to whom such estates do pass . Plowd . 25. Since the Statute of Uses , 27 H. 8 , c . 10 , by which estates of inheritance ...
... reversion of the fee - simple is in the donor ( h ) . And the donees and their issues shall perform to the donor and to his heirs , the like services as the donor doth to his lord next paramount , except the donees in frank mar- riage ...
... reversion to the donor or his heirs , on failure of issue in- heritable by force of the gift . On the creation of an estate tail , or indeed of any estate on which a reversion depends or is expectant , the fee is abstractedly divided ...
... reversion may enter if he alien in fee . 45 E. 3 , 22. " This and that which follows is not in the first edition ( which I have ) . Co. Lytt . 28. b . Sir Ed . Coke evidently alludes to the copy of the Tenures printed at Rohan ( Rouen ) ...
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 |