An Introduction to the History of the Law of Real Property: With Original AuthoritiesReprint of the final and best edition of the standard textbook. Hardcover, xiv, 448 pp. Originally published: Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1897. This valuable history is in two parts. The first is an account of Anglo-Saxon land law, the development of feudal tenure and the history of feudalism in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Special attention is given to the legislation of Edward I. The second part examines the history of uses, wills and conveyances. This fascinating account is further enriched with lengthy excerpts from Bracton, Glanville, the Year Books and the statutes (with translations). |
Contents
| 1 | |
| 29 | |
Original Documents | 56 |
State of the Law relating to Land in the Reign of Henry II | 62 |
Customary and Positive | 68 |
Relation of Lord and Free Tenant | 76 |
2 Guardianship in Chivalry or Knight Service | 86 |
Escheat and Forfeiture | 93 |
Estates Tail | 258 |
Copyhold Tenure | 291 |
APPENDIX TO PART I | 299 |
TABLE 1 | 306 |
CHAPTER VI | 315 |
315 | 333 |
5 Year Book 7 Edward IV 14 8 Translation | 341 |
The Statute of Uses and its principal effects on Modern Con | 344 |
Alienation | 101 |
A Fine of Lands | 107 |
State of the Law from the End of the Reign of Henry II to | 116 |
Completion of the Common or Earlier | 153 |
CHAPTER IV | 193 |
Legislation of Edward I | 211 |
Extract from Britton Terms of Years | 246 |
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