Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Booksat the Clarendon Press, MDCCLXXV. Printed for William Strahan, Thomas Cadell, and Daniel Prince, 1775 |
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... held A. D. 7863 , wherein the payment of tithes in general is strongly enjoined . This canon , or decree , which at first bound not the laity , was effectually confirmed by two kingdoms of the heptarchy , in their parliamentary conven ...
... held A. D. 7863 , wherein the payment of tithes in general is strongly enjoined . This canon , or decree , which at first bound not the laity , was effectually confirmed by two kingdoms of the heptarchy , in their parliamentary conven ...
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... held A. D. 1179 , which only prohibited what was called the infeodation of tithes , or their being granted to mere laymen , whereas this letter of pope Innocent to the arch - bishop enjoined the payment of tithes to the parfons of the ...
... held A. D. 1179 , which only prohibited what was called the infeodation of tithes , or their being granted to mere laymen , whereas this letter of pope Innocent to the arch - bishop enjoined the payment of tithes to the parfons of the ...
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... held them . And from this original have fprung all the lands , which , being in lay hands , do at present claim to be tithe - free ; for , if a man can fhew his lands to have been fuch abbey lands , and alfo immemorially difcharged of ...
... held them . And from this original have fprung all the lands , which , being in lay hands , do at present claim to be tithe - free ; for , if a man can fhew his lands to have been fuch abbey lands , and alfo immemorially difcharged of ...
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... held by prescription , which , as has been frequently faid , presupposes a grant . The kinds of them are various , and almost infinite : I will here briefly touch upon fome of the principal ; premifing only , that they may be vested in ...
... held by prescription , which , as has been frequently faid , presupposes a grant . The kinds of them are various , and almost infinite : I will here briefly touch upon fome of the principal ; premifing only , that they may be vested in ...
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... held by military and other perfonal services , whenever their lords should call upon them . This was evidently the fame conftitution , that difplayed itself more fully about feven hundred years afterwards : when the Salii , Burgundians ...
... held by military and other perfonal services , whenever their lords should call upon them . This was evidently the fame conftitution , that difplayed itself more fully about feven hundred years afterwards : when the Salii , Burgundians ...
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