A Digest of the Laws of England Respecting Real Property, Volume 3J. Butterworth, 1824 - Real property |
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... THE dignities or titles of honour which now exist in Feudal Digin- England derive their origin from the feudal institutions , and were first introduced here by the Normans . All the feudal writers agree that where a tract of land was.
... THE dignities or titles of honour which now exist in Feudal Digin- England derive their origin from the feudal institutions , and were first introduced here by the Normans . All the feudal writers agree that where a tract of land was.
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... honour was annexed to a feudum nobile , it was called a feudum dig- nitatis . And all feudal sovereigns claimed and exer- cised the right of erecting a particular tract of land into a feudum dignitatis , by annexing to it a dignity or ...
... honour was annexed to a feudum nobile , it was called a feudum dig- nitatis . And all feudal sovereigns claimed and exer- cised the right of erecting a particular tract of land into a feudum dignitatis , by annexing to it a dignity or ...
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... honours . 5. Upon the establishment of the Normans in Eng- English Nobi- land , the Conqueror conferred the estates of such of lity . the Saxon thanes , as had fallen in the battle of Hast- § 1 . ings , on his principal followers as ...
... honours . 5. Upon the establishment of the Normans in Eng- English Nobi- land , the Conqueror conferred the estates of such of lity . the Saxon thanes , as had fallen in the battle of Hast- § 1 . ings , on his principal followers as ...
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... honour , was unknown in England until the beginning of the reign of King Richard II . , who created Robert De Vere , then earl of Oxford , marquis of Dublin . 28. The most modern title is that of viscount , which in point of rank is ...
... honour , was unknown in England until the beginning of the reign of King Richard II . , who created Robert De Vere , then earl of Oxford , marquis of Dublin . 28. The most modern title is that of viscount , which in point of rank is ...
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... honour as appears from the following passage in Spelman's Glos- sary . - Honor ab Anglo Normannis dictum videtur uniuscujusque majoris baronis feodale patrimonium , seu baronia . Uti manerium plurimis gaudet ( interdum feodis sed ...
... honour as appears from the following passage in Spelman's Glos- sary . - Honor ab Anglo Normannis dictum videtur uniuscujusque majoris baronis feodale patrimonium , seu baronia . Uti manerium plurimis gaudet ( interdum feodis sed ...
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Popular passages
Page 171 - ... rerum, an end of names and dignities, and whatsoever is terrene, and why not of De Vere ? For where is Bohun ? Where is Mowbray ? Where is Mortimer ? Nay, which is more and most of all, where is Plantagenet ? They are entombed in the urns and sepulchres of mortality. And yet let the name and dignity of De Vere stand so long as it pleaseth God!
Page 108 - Offices, which are a right to exercise a public or private employment, and to take the fees and emoluments thereunto belonging, are also incorporeal hereditaments, whether public, as those of magistrates, or private, as of bailiffs, receivers, and the like.
Page 351 - ... if such tenant for life die on the day on which the same was made payable, the whole, or if before such day then a proportion, of such rent, according to the time such tenant for life lived of the last year or quarter of a year or other time in which the said rent was growing due as aforesaid, making all just allowances, or a proportionable part thereof respectively...
Page 343 - ... when the party by his own contract creates a duty or charge upon himself he is bound to make it good, if he may, notwithstanding any accident by inevitable necessity, because he might have provided against it by his contract.
Page 378 - On failure of lineal descendants, or issue, of the person last seised, the inheritance shall descend to his collateral relations, being of the blood of the first purchaser; subject to the three preceding rules.
Page 272 - Where the legitimacy of a child, in such a case, is disputed, on the ground that the husband was not the father of such child, the question to be left to the jury is, whether the husband was the father of such child? and the evidence to prove that he was not the father must be of such facts and circumstances as are sufficient to prove, to the satisfaction of a jury, that no sexual intercourse took place between the husband and wife at any time, when, by such intercourse, the husband could, by the...
Page 116 - If an office be granted to a person quamdiu se bene gesserit, the grantee has an estate for life ; for as nothing but misconduct can determine his interest, no one can prefix a shorter time than life ; since it must be by his own act, which the law will not presume, that his estate can determine.
Page 481 - ... therefore, for such things as can have no lawful beginning, nor be created at this day by any manner of grant, or reservation, or deed that can be supposed, no prescription is good.
Page 515 - But as often as parliament had limited the time of actions and remedies to a certain period, in legal proceedings, the Court of Chancery adopted that rule, and applied it to similar cases in equity.
Page 378 - ... result back to the heirs of the body of that ancestor, from whom it either really has, or is supposed by fiction of law to have originally descended: according to the rule laid down in 'the year booksP, Fitzherbert'i, Brook r, and Hale9, " that he who would have been heir to the father of the deceased...