The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Or, A Commentary Upon Littleton. Not the Name of the Author Only, But of the Law Itself

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E. and R. Brooke, 1794
 

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Seite 21 - Tenant at will is where lands or tenements are let by one man to another, to have and to hold to him at the will of the lessor, by force of which lease the lessee is in possession.
Seite 155 - Tenure in villenage is most properly when a villein holdeth of his lord, to whom he is a villein, certain lands or tenements according to the custom of the...
Seite 34 - ... or other lesser part thereof, and there openly doth declare the quantity and the certainty of the land which she shall
Seite 256 - it seemeth that this word hotchpot, is in English a pudding ; for in a pudding is not commonly put one thing alone, but one thing with other things together.
Seite 131 - England is; because by many successions of ages, it hath been fined and refined by an infinite number of grave and learned men...
Seite 2 - Gawdie, late Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, whose name of baptism was Thomas, and his name of confirmation Francis, and that name of Francis, by the advice of all the Judges, in anno 36, Henry VIII, he did bear, and after used in all his purchases and grants.
Seite 243 - Obligation is a word of his owne nature of a large extent; but it is commonly taken in the common law, for a bond containing a penalty, with condition...
Seite 43 - ... make homage to his lord, he shall be ungirt and his head uncovered, and his lord shall sit and the tenant shall kneel before him on both his knees, and hold his hands jointly together between the hands of his lord. and shall say thus: I become your man, from this day forward, of life and limb, and of earthly worship, and unto you shall be true and faithful, and bear you faith for the tenements that I claim to hold of you, saving the faith that I owe to our sovereign lord the king; and then the...
Seite 148 - Also, though a man may not grant, nor give, his tenements to his wife during the coverture, for that his wife and he be but one person in the law...
Seite 1 - If a man giveth lands to a man, to have and to hold to him and his heires on the part of his mother...