1 Ch.Juftice Coke.

Law Tracts:

1. The Compleat Copyholder; being a Difcourse of the Antiquity and Nature of Manors and Copyholds, &c.

II. A Reading on 27 Edward the First, called the Statute De Finibus levatis.

III. A Treatife of Bail and Mainprize,

By Sir EDWARD COKE, Knight, Lord Chief Juftice of the King's Bench.

To which are added,
added,

The Old Tenures; alfo, Some Notes and Additions to LORD COKE's Commentary upon LITTLETON, fhewing how the Laws are altered fince those Authors wrote.

By WILLIAM HAWKINS, Serjeant at Law. The whole published in the English Language,

LONDON:

Printed by his Majefty's Law-Printer

For J. WORRALL, at the Dove, in Bell-yard, near Lincoln's Inn M.DCC.LXIV.

bafe tenure, or villenage; and of the repute
of copyholds and copyholders at this day.
: Sect. 32.
Page 54
Chap. VI. Of cuftoms, prefcriptions, and
ufages, and what are good customs within
manors, what not. Sect. 33.
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Chap. VII. Of grants and other acts made by
the lords themselves, and by copyholders;
and to whom fuch grants made fhall be good,
and to whom not. Sect. 34, 35. 67 to 79
Chap. VIII. Where copyholds may be trans-
ferred and conveyed, and where not. Sect.
36, 37.
83 to 84
Chap. IX. Of furrenders, prefentments, and
admittances; and firft of furrenders made
by copyholders, and what and where good,
what and where not. Sect. 38, 39. 85 to 86
Chap. X. Of préfentments of furrenders by
tenants and others made in the court of the
manor, or out of court, where good, where
not. Sect. 40.
88
Chap. XI. Of admittances; by whom to be
made, and where in court, where out of
court, and what shall be faid a good admit-
tance, what not. Sect. 41.
Chap. XII. Of what things copyholds and co-
pyhold-eftates may be granted, and of what
not. Sect. 42.
Chap. XIII. Of the authority of the lords and
of the ftewards and under-ftewards of mà-
nors; what acts done by them are good,
what not. Sect. 43, 44, 45, 46. 99 to 107
·Chap. XIV. If copyholds may be entailed
within the ftatute of Weftm. 2. And of
eftates of inheritance, frank-tenement and

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chattels

chattels of them; and what qualities are incident to copyhold-eftates, Sec. 47, 48, 49, Page 108 to 113 Chap. XV. Of defcents of copyholds, and how they are to be guided and directed. Sect. 50.

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Chap. XVI. Of actions real or perfonal con

cerning copyholds and copyhold-eftates, and in what court to be brought. Sect. 51. 118 Chap. XVII. What ftatutes or acts of parlia ment extend to copyholds and copyholders, and what not. Sect. 52, 53, 54, 55. 120 to 125

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Chap. XVIII. Of fines upon furrenders or alienations, payable to lords of manors, either certain or incertain. Sect. 56. Chap. XIX. Of forfeitures of copyholds; and where the lord fhall take advantage of forfeitures, where not, &c. and how an eftate forfeit may be confirmed. Sect. 57 to 131 to 141 Chap. XX. Of extinguishment of copyholds and copyhold-eftates; and what and whofe acts shall amount to an extinguishment of them, what to a fufpenfion only of them. Sect. 62.

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