An Introduction to the History of the Law of Real Property: With Original Authorities |
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alienation assize autem Blackstone Bracton called Chancery Chap charter chief lord class of rights common law conveyance copyhold court created Crown 8vo curia Curia Regis custom descend donor edition Edward ejus enjoyment escheat estate in fee estate tail fee simple feoffee feoffment feoffor folkland freehold fuerit gift grant habuerit haeredes haeredibus haeres heirs held Henry Henry VIII hereditaments Hist hold homage hujusmodi husband inheritance interest in lands issue knight-service lease lessee Littleton livery of seisin lord the king Magna Carta manor marriage mode nisi owner pasture person possession poterit potest quae quam quia quis quod reign rent rights of common Roman law rule scutage SECT seised seisin servitium sive socage Statute Stubbs suam suum tali tamen tenant in tail tenements tenure term terra thegn tiel tunc vero vested Vict villein villenage wardship wife writ writ of right
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Page 391 - That every Will made by a Man or Woman shall be revoked by his or her Marriage (except a Will made in exercise of a Power of Appointment, when the Real or Personal Estate thereby appointed would not in default of such Appointment pass to his or her Heir, Customary Heir, Executor, or Administrator, or the Person entitled as his or her next of Kin, under the Statute of Distributions) . XIX.
Page 324 - And whensoever from henceforth it shall fortune in the Chancery that in one Case a Writ is found and in like Case falling under like Law and requiring like Remedy, is found none, the Clerks of the Chancery shall agree in making the Writ...
Page 349 - ... to all intents constructions and purposes in the law, of and in such like estates as they had or shall have in use trust or confidence of or in the same.
Page 392 - And be it further enacted, That no will or codicil, or any part thereof, shall be revoked otherwise than as aforesaid, or by another will or codicil executed in manner hereinbefore required, or by some writing declaring an intention to revoke the same, and executed in the manner in which a will is hereinbefore required to be executed, or by the burning, tearing, or otherwise destroying the same by the testator, or by some person in his presence and by his direction, with the intention of revoking...
Page 328 - A, tenant in fee simple, makes a feoffment to B and his heirs, to the use of C and his heirs.
Page 385 - Every will shall be construed with reference to the real and personal estate comprised in it to speak and take effect as if it had been executed immediately before the death of the testator, unless a contrary intention appears by the will.
Page 379 - That no will shall be valid unless it shall be in writing and executed in manner hereinafter mentioned ; (that is to say), it shall be signed at the foot or end thereof by the testator, or by some other person in his presence and by his direction ; and such signature shall be made or acknowledged by the testator in the presence of two or more witnesses present at the same time, and such witnesses shall attest and shall subscribe the will in the presence of the testator, but no form of attestation...
Page 368 - Rotulorum and two justices of the peace and the clerk of the peace of the same county or counties or two of them at the least whereof the clerk of the peace to be one; and the same enrolment to be had and made within six months next after the date of the same writings indented...
Page 352 - a competent livelihood of freehold for the wife, of lands and tenements; to take effect, in profit or possession, presently after the death of the husband, for the life of the wife at least.
Page 391 - Service," and to any other testamentary disposition ; and the words " real estate" shall extend to manors, advowsons, messuages, lands, tithes, rents, and hereditaments, whether freehold, customary freehold, tenant right, customary or copyhold, or of any other tenure, and whether corporeal, incorporeal, or personal, and to any undivided share thereof, and to any estate, right, or interest (other than a chattel interest) therein ; and the words