Commentaries on the Laws of England ...Bancroft-Whitney, 1890 - Law |
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9 Ninth action advowson alienation ancestors antient Blackstone blood Bracton called CHAPTER chattels chose in action Cited claim common law Conn consent convey conveyance copyhold corporeal court custom death deed descend devise distinction doctrine dower Eliz England escheat fealty fee-simple feodal feoffee feoffment feud forfeiture freehold grant grantor hath heirs held holden Ibid incorporeal hereditaments inheritance Inst interest issue John Stiles joint tenants king king's knight-service lease limited Litt livery of seisin lord manor ment nature Ninth edition inserts Ninth edition reads occupancy original owner particular estate parties person possession prescription Previously principle purchase purchasor quia emptores real property reason recovery remainder rent reversion rule seised seisin socage species Stat statute statutes of mortmain Stiles surrender tenant in tail tenure term things tion tithes vested villein villenage void warranty Wend whereby wife words writ
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Page 282 - The present capacity of taking effect in possession, if the possession were to become vacant, and not the certainty that the possession will become vacant before the estate limited in remainder determines, universally distinguishes a vested remainder from one that is contingent.
Page 3 - THERE is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of . property ; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world} in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe.
Page 473 - Now this was the manner in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all things ; a man plucked off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbour : and this was a testimony in Israel.
Page 9 - And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Page 190 - October, 1845, all corporeal tenements and hereditaments shall, as regards the conveyance of the immediate freehold thereof, be deemed to lie in grant as well as in livery...
Page 9 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 436 - ... a trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.
Page 764 - Third, by the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth, and in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four.
Page 144 - Temple speaks, a sort of people in a condition of downright servitude, used and employed in the most servile works, and belonging, both they, their children, and effects, to the lord of the soil, like the rest of the cattle or stock upon it.
Page 413 - Bold words ! but, though the beast of game The privilege of chase may claim, Though space and law the stag we lend Ere hound we slip or bow we bend, Who ever recked, where, how, or when The prowling fox was trapped or slain...