 | 1866 - 792 pages
...considerable advantages over their masters, and in particular so strengthened the tenure of their estates, that they came to have in them an interest in many places fully as good, in others better, than their lords. And concurrently they consolidated by custom and... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1885 - 626 pages
...for this was dealing with his villein on the footing of a free-man. So that villeins, in time, gained considerable ground on their lords ; and in particular...degree, that they came to have in them an interest fully as good, in some cases better than their lords. For many lords having permitted the villeins... | |
 | John Earle - Charters - 1888 - 686 pages
...is thus formulated in the oft-quoted words of Blackstone : — ' Villeins in process of time gained considerable ground on their lords, and in particular...as good, in others better than their lords. For the good-nature and benevolence of many lords of manors having, time out of mind, permitted their villeins... | |
 | William Blackstone (Sir) - Great Britain - 1897 - 838 pages
...Copyhold Tenures. How Formed. Villeins, by these and other means, in process of time, gained position, and strengthened the tenure of their estates to that degree, that they came to have an interest in them, in many places as good, and in others better than their lords. The benevolence... | |
 | Royal Society of Canada - Humanities - 1898 - 926 pages
...do that be not bond men." That by these and many other means, villeins, in process of time, gained considerable ground on their lords, and in particular strengthened the tenure of theJr estates in that degree that they came to have in them an interest, in many places full as good... | |
 | Charles Erehart Chadman - Law - 1912 - 624 pages
...Villeins, by these and many other means, in process of time gained considerable grounds on their lord; and in particular strengthened the tenure of their...good, in others better, than their lords. For the good-nature and benevolence of many lords of manors having time out of mind, permitted their villeins... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1979 - 569 pages
...ftrengthened the tenure of their eftates to that degree, that they came to have in them an intereft in many places full as good, in others better than their lords. For the goodnature and benevolence of many lords of manors having, time out of mind, permitted their villeins... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - Law - 1887 - 514 pages
...This they called villeinage, and the tenants villeins.' . . . ' Villeins 4 in process of time gained considerable ground on their lords ; and in particular...as good, in others better than their lords. For the good-nature and benevolence of many lords of manors having, time out of mind, permitted their villeins... | |
 | Royal Society of Canada - Humanities - 1898 - 914 pages
...that be not bond men." That Ъу these and many other means, villeins, in process of time, grained considerable ground on their lords, and In particular strengthened the tenure of their estates in that degree that they came to have in them an interest, in many places full ae good ; in others... | |
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Villeins, by these and many other means, in process of time gained considerable ground on their lords; and in particular strengthened the tenure of their estates to that degree, that they came to have in them an interest in many places full as good, in... 
