 | William Blackstone - Law - 1791 - 566 pages
...being thus derived, or fuppofed to be derived, from the king, thofc that held immediately under him, "in right of his crown and dignity, were called his tenants in capite, or in chief; which was the mod honourable fpeciesof tenure, but at the fame time fubjefted... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1794 - 700 pages
...being thus derived, or fuppofed to be derived, from the king, thofe that held immediately under him, in right of his crown and dignity, were called his tenants in capitf, or in chief; which was the mofl honourable fpecies of tenure, but at the fame time fubjedted... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 742 pages
...being thin derived, or supposed to be derived, from the king, those that held immtdiately under him, in right of his crown and dignity, were called his tenants in capile, win chief; which was the moat honourable TEN species of tenure, but at the same time subject * ed the... | |
 | John Bullar - Isle of Wight (England) - 1825 - 164 pages
...the court without jury. The judges are freeholders, who hold of His Majesty's castle of Carisbrook. * Those who held lands immediately under the king, in...his crown and dignity, were called his tenants in capite, or in chief: which, under the fendal system, was the moit honourable species of tenure. D 3... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - Law - 1825 - 626 pages
...being thus derived, or supposed to be derived, from the king, those that held immediately under him, in right of his crown and dignity, were called his tenants in capite, or in chief; which was the most honourable species of tenure, but at the same time subjected... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1827 - 916 pages
...being thus derived, or supposed to be derived, from the king, those that held immediately under him, in right of his crown and dignity, were called his tenants in capite, 3 or in chief; which was the most honourable species of tenure, but at the same time subjected... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1832 - 624 pages
...being thus derived, or supposed to be derived, from the king, those that held immediately under him, in right of his crown and dignity, were called his tenants in eapite, or in chief. There seem to have subsisted four principal species of lay tenures, to which all... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 448 pages
...middle lords. All tenures being thus derived from the king, those that held immediately under him, in right of his crown and dignity, were called his tenants in capite, or in chief. ' Tenements are of two kinds, franktenement and villenage. And, of frank-tenements,... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1832 - 628 pages
...being thus derived, or supposed to be derived, from the king, those that held immediately under him, in right of his crown and dignity, were called his tenants in capite, or in chief. There seem to have subsisted four principal species of lay tenures, to which all... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1832 - 620 pages
...being thus derived, or supposed to be derived, from the king, those that held immediately under him, in right of his crown and dignity, were called his tenants in capite, or in chief. There seem to have subsisted four principal species of lay tenures, to which all... | |
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All tenures being thus derived, or supposed to be derived, from the king, those that held immediately under him, in right of his crown and dignity, were called his tenants in capite... 
