The Second Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Containing the Exposition of Many Ancient and Other Statutes ... |
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act of parliament action affife alſo ancient Angliĉ anno anſwer appeareth aſſiſe attainted auter becauſe biſhop Bract Bracton breve Britton cafe cafu caſe cauſe chapter common law coram court damages default diſſeiſor diſtreſſe domini regis doth dower eſſoine eſtate faith fame fecundum felony feoffee feoffment ficut firſt Fitz Fleta foit fuam fuch fuerit fuit fuper fuum gardein graunt habeat hath been faid heire holden hujufmodi Inſtitutes iſſue judgement juſtices king land leet lord miſchiefe obſerved parliament perſon plaintife plea preſent quĉ quam quare queux quod raigne realme reaſon rege Regift regni reſpect ſaid ſame ſay ſect ſeiſed ſervice ſhall ſhall recover ſhe ſheriffe ſhould ſome ſpeciall ſtatute ſuch ſuit tenant thereof theſe words thoſe tiel tunc ubi fupra uſed Vide vouch warranty waſte writ of right
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Page 45 - All Merchants (if they were not openly prohibited before) shall have their safe and sure Conduct to depart out of England, to come into England, to tarry in, and go through England, as well by Land as by Water, to buy and sell without any manner of evil Tolts, by the old and rightful Customs, except in Time of War.
Page 331 - First, concerning lands that many times are given upon condition, that is, to wit, where any giveth his land to any man and his wife, and to the heirs begotten of the bodies of the same man and his wife, with such condition expressed that if the same man and his wife die without heir of their bodies between them begotten, the land so given shall revert to the giver or his heir; in case also where one giveth lands in free...
Page 19 - ... shall answer for the debt. And if they will, they shall have the lands and rents of the debtor, until they be satisfied of the debt which they before paid for him, unless the principal debtor can show himself to be acquitted against the said sureties.
Page 26 - Banks shall be defended from henceforth, but such as were in defence in the time of King Henry our Grandfather, by the same places, and the same bounds, as they were wont to be in his time.
Page 179 - ND the King prohibiteth that none do ravish nor take away by ' •**• force any maiden within age, (neither by her own consent nor ' without) nor any wife or maiden of full age, nor any other woman
Page 5 - ... relief; that is to say, the heir or heirs of an earl, for a whole earldom, by...
Page 86 - If an heir, of what age soever he be, will not marry at the request of his lord, he shall not be compelled thereunto ; but when he cometh to full age, he shall give to his lord and pay him as much as any would have given him for the marriage, before the receipt of his land, and that whether he will marry himself, or not ; for the marriage of him that is within age of mere right pertaineth to the lord of the fee.
Page 3-18 - ... 2. No man shall be disseised, etc., unless it be by the lawful judgment, that is, verdict of his equals (that is, of men of his own condition), or by the law of the land (that is, to speak it once for all), by the due course and process of law.
Page 331 - ... their issue of the land, contrary to the minds of the givers, and contrary to the form expressed in the gift; and further, when the issue of such feoffee is failing, the land so given ought to return to the giver or his heir by form of gift expressed in the deed, though the issue, if any were, had died; yet by the deed and feoffment of them, to whom land was so given upon condition, the donors have heretofore been barred of their reversion...
Page 331 - In case also where one giveth lands in free marriage, which gift hath a condition annexed, though it be not expressed in the deed of gift, which is this, that if the husband and wife die without heir of their bodies begotten, the land so given shall revert to the giver or his heir...