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 |
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Common terms and phrases
action apres ascun assise attorn autre auxi aver avera baron celuy ceo cas certeyn comen common law copies custom deed deins demesne descent deux dieth disseisin disseisor donques dower droit editions enter envers escuage estre fait fealty fee-simple fee-tail feme feoffee feoffment feoffor fitz forsque freehold fuist gavelkind grant hath heir homage husband inheritance issint issue Item knight-service lands or tenements lautre lease lessee lessor Lettou lissue lord lour Lytt Lyttleton Machl manor ment morust Olde Tenures parceners pluis pur ceo pur ceo que pur terme quil Rastell's Transl Redm release reles remeyndre rent revercion sauns scil seignour seised seisin serjeanty serra sicome Sir Edward Coke socage sount statute taille temps tenant in tail tenaunt a terme tenure terme de vie terres ou tenementes tiel tiel cas tielx tient Tottyl unqore villein villenage wife words within brackets writ writ of right
Popular passages
Page 206 - December, 1833, no person shall make an entry or distress, or bring an action to recover any land or rent, but within twenty years next after the time at which the right to make such entry or distress or to bring such action shall have first accrued to some person through whom he claims; or if such right shall not have accrued to any person through whom he claims...
Page 156 - And that all fines for alienations, tenures by homage, knight service, and escuage, and also aids for marrying the daughter or knighting the son, and all tenures of the king in capite, be likewise taken away(^). And that all sorts of tenures, held of the king or others, be turned into free and common socage, save only tenures in frankalmoign, copyholds and the honorary services (without the slavish part) of grand serjeanty.
Page 428 - And be it further enacted, that no descent cast, discontinuance or warranty which may happen or be made after the said 31st day of December, 1833, shall toll or defeat any right of entry or action for the recovery of land.
Page 121 - I become your man from this day forward [of life and limb, and of earthly worship,] and unto you shall be true and faithful, and bear to you faith for the tenements that I claim to hold of you, saving the faith that I owe unto our sovereign lord the king ; and then the lord, so sitting, shall kiss him.
Page 22 - The lineal descendants, in infinitum, of any person deceased shall represent their ancestor ; that is, shall stand in the same place as the person himself would have done had he been living.
Page 206 - ... shall have held the same, all of whom shall have obtained possession thereof adversely to the right of presentation or gift of such person, or of some person through whom he claims, if the times of such incumbencies...
Page 71 - And, because no livery of seisin is necessary to a lease for years, such lessee is not said to be seised, or to have true legal seisin of the lands. Nor indeed does the bare lease vest any estate in the lessee; but only gives him a right of entry on the tenement, which right is called his interest in the term...
Page 42 - Talbot, lord of the manor of Kingston-Lisle in Berks, that he and his heirs, lords of the said manor, should be peers of the realm, by the title of barons of Lisle; here John Talbot had a base or qualified fee in that dignity, and the instant he or his heirs quitted the seignory of this manor, the dignity was at an end.
Page 46 - TENANT by the curtesy of England is where a man taketh a wife seised in fee simple, or in fee tail general, or seised as heir in tail especial, and hath issue by the same wife, male or female born alive, albeit the issue after dieth or liveth, yet if the wife dies, the husband shall hold the land during his life by the law of England.
Page 378 - For these words, si contingat, &c., are nought worth to such a condition, unless it hath these words following, That it shall be lawful for the feoffor and his heirs...